On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 04:42:42PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 13:39:37 -0700 > Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Personally a checkpatch warning bugs me more than having an extra > > > line :) > > > > > Same here. If we no longer believe in the 80-column limit, we should remove it, > > not use it to hide other problems in the noise. > > Yes, please, can we? > > I personally hate the 80 character limit rule, because I like > descriptive variables and function names, which itself causes the 80 > character limit to be broken. I find line breaks to avoid that limit > just makes the code look worse. Or at least up it to 100 chars. > It is a two-edged sword. Downside is that a longer limit also invites deeply nested loops and conditionals, which I am sure will be used as argument against raising it. Feel free to submit a patch to raise the limit to 100; I'll be more than happy to give it an enthusiastic Reviewed-by:. My personal desire for conflict isn't strong enough to submit it myself, though. Guenter
