Hello! On 10/10/20 3:11 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>>> Umm, this has formatting issues with lines extending beyond column #80. >> >> 80 columns are no longer a line length limit -- 100 is, IIRC. > > I don't think anything has changed here: Oh, it did! Look for max_line_length in scripts/checkpatch.pl. :-) > "The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns. > > "Statements longer than 80 columns should be broken into sensible chunks, > unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does > not hide information." > > -- from Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, "Breaking long lines and > strings". > > And if it were to change anytime, then I think it would make sense for > such a new rule to apply to new files only. I would be strongly against > it anyway, as the human's capability to parse lines has not changed when > it comes to the quantity of characters easily processed at once: the angle > spanned by eyes is hardwired. For this reason the GNU toolchain projects The font sizea are not hardwired though... > keep the limit even lower, at 74 columns (after extensive discussions). This is also close to a limit on the patch descriptions... > Maciej MBR, Sergei
