On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:41:07 +0000 Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 01:54:39PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > It would be good to pass this through checkpatch - I notice some lines > > > seem to be over the 80 character limit now. > > > > Hi Russell > > > > The limit got raised to something higher. I personally prefer 80, and > > if a file is using 80, new code would be inconsistent with old code if > > it did not use 80. So your request is reasonable anyway. > > Hi Andrew, > > I do most of my kernel hacking on the Linux console, so 80x25 is the > limit of what I see - and depending on the editor I'm using, lines > longer than 80 characters are chopped to 80 characters unless I scroll > to the right (which then makes moving up and down problematical.) So, > the files I'm responsible for are likely to stay requiring an 80 > character width.
+1 Maybe we should patch checkpatch to still enforce 80 for networking.
