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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/coding-style: Allow 100 column lines
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
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On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 16:14 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On May 29, 2020, at 5:12 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > Change the maximum allowed line length to 100 from 80.
> 
> What is the benefit/motivation for changing this?  The vast majority
> of files are wrapped at 80 columns, and if some files start being
> wrapped at 100 columns they will either display poorly on 80-column
> terminals, or a lot of dead space will show in 100-column terminals.

YA Linus bleat in this thread.
I don't much care one way or any other.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wj3iGQqjpvc+gf6+C29Jo4COj6OQQFzdY0h5qvYKTdCow@mail.gmail.com/

and

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjR0H3+2ba0UUWwoYzYBH0GX9yTf5dj2MZyo0xvyzvJnA@mail.gmail.com/