On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:31:35 +0200 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > I pop up there a lot, but there is no confusion. I am (and maybe we are > all?) well aware that checkpatch hard limit is 100 as explained also here: > https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ > > But the coding style still says that preferred length limit is 80. > Checkpatch is not a coding style. Coding style document is describing > the coding style... > > People trust checkpatch way too much, thus its hard limit was raised. > Some maintainers also agree with that, yet it does not invalidate what > coding style document says.
Hear, hear!
