On Sun, 2021-02-14 at 12:15 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 06:45:12PM +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > > +Checkpatch (scripts/checkpatch.pl) is a perl script which checks for trivial style > > It's quite amusing that this patch contains lines > 80 columns. Then you could amuse yourself further by looking at the existing line lengths of .rst files. $ git ls-files -- '*.rst' | \ xargs cat | \ awk '{print length($0);}' | \ sort -n | \ uniq -c | \ tail -20 2 226 1 230 1 233 1 234 48 246 1 253 2 257 1 263 1 270 1 275 1 276 1 293 1 294 1 308 2 324 1 359 1 360 5 369 1 370 2 409 Other than testing whether or not an SPDX license line exists, checkpatch doesn't inspect .rst files. There are better tools for that.