On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:05:04PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > Also, given the ever increasing average identifier length, strict > adherence to 80 columns is sometimes just not possible without silly > visual gymnastics. The kernel now has quite a lot of 30+ character > length function names, constants, and structs. maybe checkpatch should warn for identifiers that are 30+ characters long? address the problem at its source ..