On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:41:07 +0000 Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 01:54:39PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

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It would be good to pass this through checkpatch - I notice some lines
seem to be over the 80 character limit now.  

Hi Russell

The limit got raised to something higher. I personally prefer 80, and
if a file is using 80, new code would be inconsistent with old code if
it did not use 80. So your request is reasonable anyway.  

Hi Andrew,

I do most of my kernel hacking on the Linux console, so 80x25 is the
limit of what I see - and depending on the editor I'm using, lines
longer than 80 characters are chopped to 80 characters unless I scroll
to the right (which then makes moving up and down problematical.) So,
the files I'm responsible for are likely to stay requiring an 80
character width.

+1

Maybe we should patch checkpatch to still enforce 80 for networking.