Le 06/11/2020 à 12:29, Peter Maydell a écrit : > Relax the wording about line lengths a little bit; this goes with the > checkpatch changes to warn at 100 characters rather than 80. > > (Compare the Linux kernel commit bdc48fa11e46f8; our coding style is > not theirs, but the rationale is good and applies to us too.) > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > --- > CODING_STYLE.rst | 9 +++++++-- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/CODING_STYLE.rst b/CODING_STYLE.rst > index 8b13ef0669e..7bf4e39d487 100644 > --- a/CODING_STYLE.rst > +++ b/CODING_STYLE.rst > @@ -85,8 +85,13 @@ Line width > Lines should be 80 characters; try not to make them longer. > > Sometimes it is hard to do, especially when dealing with QEMU subsystems > -that use long function or symbol names. Even in that case, do not make > -lines much longer than 80 characters. > +that use long function or symbol names. If wrapping the line at 80 columns > +is obviously less readable and more awkward, prefer not to wrap it; better > +to have an 85 character line than one which is awkwardly wrapped. > + > +Even in that case, try not to make lines much longer than 80 characters. > +(The checkpatch script will warn at 100 characters, but this is intended > +as a guard against obviously-overlength lines, not a target.) > > Rationale: > >
Applied to my trivial-patches branch. Thanks, Laurent
