On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:10:25AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:40:36PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 03:58:01PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > +**80 character line limit** > > > + The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns. > > Hrm, it is? > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst#n104 > claims: > > The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns. > > Statements longer than 80 columns should be broken into sensible chunks, > unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does > not hide information. That's true, it's not called out well enough. 80 is "preferred limit" but not the hard limit, which is 100. See commit bdc48fa11e46 ("checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning") -Kees -- Kees Cook
