Am 19.11.2020 um 22:41 schrieb Andrew Lunn:
>>>> Doesn't checkpatch complain about line length > 80 here?
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>> commit bdc48fa11e46f867ea4d75fa59ee87a7f48be144
>>> Author: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
>>> Date: Fri May 29 16:12:21 2020 -0700
>>>
>>> checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning
>>>
>>
>> Ah, again something learnt. Thanks for the reference.
>
> But it then got revoked for netdev. Or at least it was planned to
> re-impose 80 for netdev. I don't know if checkpatch got patched yet.
>
> Andrew
>
At a first glance it sounds strange that subsystems may define own
rules for such basic things. But supposedly there has been a longer
emotional disucssion about this already ..
