netdev - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping commit messages at 72 columns

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Message-ID: <20150401213618.029f8c1f@lwn.net>
Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2015 21:36:18 +0200
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ian Morris <ipm@...rality.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/SubmittingPatches: Suggest line wrapping
 commit messages at 72 columns

On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:20:01 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> waah, I use 75 and this patch has ruined my life.
> 
> Is there some way I can disable just this check without patching
> checkpatch?  I suspect a lot of people will be interested in doing
> this ;)

I use 75 too, FWIW.

It seems to me that nobody out there complains about 75-character lines
in commit logs; it's the 120-character lines that irritate people.  I
would suggest that this limit could be set to 75 (or even, say, 77) and
still achieve its real purpose while leaving far fewer ruined lives in its
wake. 

jon
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