> Change the maximum allowed line length to 100 from 80. > > Miscellanea: > > o to avoid unnecessary whitespace changes in files, > checkpatch will no longer emit a warning about line length > when scanning files unless --strict is also used > o Add a bit to coding-style about alignment to open parenthesis I suggest to convert this patch into a patch series with three update steps. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=86852175b016f0c6873dcbc24b93d12b7b246612#n138 … > +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst > @@ -84,15 +84,22 @@ … … > +… and are > +are placed … Please avoid a word duplication here. > +… to a function open parenthesis. Wording alternatives: +is to align descendants to an open parenthesis of a function call. > +These same rules are … +The same rules are applied to function headers with a long argument list. Regards, Markus