Relax the wording about line lengths a little bit; this goes with the checkpatch changes to warn at 100 characters rather than 80.
(Compare the Linux kernel commit bdc48fa11e46f8; our coding style is not theirs, but the rationale is good and applies to us too.) Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- CODING_STYLE.rst | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CODING_STYLE.rst b/CODING_STYLE.rst index 8b13ef0669e..7bf4e39d487 100644 --- a/CODING_STYLE.rst +++ b/CODING_STYLE.rst @@ -85,8 +85,13 @@ Line width Lines should be 80 characters; try not to make them longer. Sometimes it is hard to do, especially when dealing with QEMU subsystems -that use long function or symbol names. Even in that case, do not make -lines much longer than 80 characters. +that use long function or symbol names. If wrapping the line at 80 columns +is obviously less readable and more awkward, prefer not to wrap it; better +to have an 85 character line than one which is awkwardly wrapped. + +Even in that case, try not to make lines much longer than 80 characters. +(The checkpatch script will warn at 100 characters, but this is intended +as a guard against obviously-overlength lines, not a target.) Rationale: -- 2.20.1
