On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 07:02:55PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: [...] > We could maybe mention that 76 columns limit in the coding style > document, to make people aware that they should start thinking about > breaking lines in two when they reach 76 characters in a line. But > changing checkpatch.pl to use this limit really sounds too harsh to me.
Please don't. The whole point of checkpatch.pl is to let a robot do the work of checking coding style instead of relying on us humans. -- Eduardo