On Thu, Jan 06, 2022, David Matlack wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 12:59 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Newline. I'm all in favor of running over when doing so improves readability, but > > that's not the case here. > > Ah shoot. I had configured my editor to use a 100 char line limit for > kernel code, but reading the kernel style guide more closely I see > that 80 is still the preferred limit. I'll go back to preferring 80 and > only go over when it explicitly makes the code more readable. Yeah, checkpatch was modified to warn at 100 chars so that people would stop interpreting 80 as a hard limit, e.g. wrapping due to being one character over, but 80 is still the soft limit.
