On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:22:48 +0200 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Line lengths above 80 characters do exist. They are rare, but > they happen from time to time. An ignored rule is worse than an > exception to the rule, so do the latter. > > Some on the list expressed their preference for a soft limit that > is slightly lower than 80 characters, to account for extra characters > in unified diffs (including three-way diffs) and for email quoting. > However, there was no consensus on this so keep the 80-character > soft limit and add a hard limit at 90. > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> > --- > CODING_STYLE | 13 ++++++++++--- > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++-- > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) I would prefer a slightly bigger hard limit to allow for un-split strings, but that's pushing into bike-shed territory. We can still revisit that any time later. Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.h...@de.ibm.com>
