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> From: Daniel P. Berrangé [mailto:berra...@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 7:14 PM
> To: ganqixin <ganqi...@huawei.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Fix line over 80 characters warning
> 
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 04:30:13AM +0800, Gan Qixin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >     I used scripts/checkpatch.pl to find that many files in the hw
> > directory contain lines with more than 80 characters. Therefore, I
> > splited some lines to fix this warning.
> 
> Do we really need to still fix ourselves to a 80 col limit in the year 2020 ?
> 
> Linux increased their max line length to 100 chars and even set checkpatch.pl
> to not complain about that limit unless --strict is given.
> 
> 80 chars is fine as a "wish list" target, but IMHO the code often benefits 
> more
> from exceeding 80 chars, and not wrapping.
> 

Hi Daniel,
  Yes, you are right! I also found this problem when I try to fix these 
warning. In some cases, the 80-character limit doesn't necessarily make code 
more readable. 

Thanks,
Gan Qixin

> Regards,
> Daniel
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