On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 10:21:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
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")
Sadly it doesn't look like I'm the only one who's confused here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=%22checkpatch%2Fcoding-style%3A+deprecate+80-column+warning%22
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Thanks,
Sasha
