On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 15:36 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > extending some of these lines to be >80 characters also improves > the readability imo. Right. I have no personal objection to very occasionally using line lengths < ~100 chars instead of 80. AFAIK: neither does Linus. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/15/749 Beyond that, I believe it's too much left-right eyeball movement for quick and easy reading comprehension.