On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:20:01 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > waah, I use 75 and this patch has ruined my life. > > Is there some way I can disable just this check without patching > checkpatch? I suspect a lot of people will be interested in doing > this ;) I use 75 too, FWIW. It seems to me that nobody out there complains about 75-character lines in commit logs; it's the 120-character lines that irritate people. I would suggest that this limit could be set to 75 (or even, say, 77) and still achieve its real purpose while leaving far fewer ruined lives in its wake. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html