[ovs-dev] [PATCH] checkpatch: Increase recommended line length to 100

Roi Dayan roid at mellanox.com
Tue Jun 16 13:14:55 UTC 2020



On 2020-06-11 1:09 PM, Roi Dayan wrote:
> This is to match a recent kernel checkpatch change that
> also increased it to 100 line length.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid at mellanox.com>
> ---
>  utilities/checkpatch.py | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/utilities/checkpatch.py b/utilities/checkpatch.py
> index fc9e20bf1b5f..80ee6d827567 100755
> --- a/utilities/checkpatch.py
> +++ b/utilities/checkpatch.py
> @@ -287,8 +287,8 @@ def pointer_whitespace_check(line):
>  
>  def line_length_check(line):
>      """Return TRUE if the line length is too long"""
> -    if len(line) > 79:
> -        print_warning("Line is %d characters long (recommended limit is 79)"
> +    if len(line) > 100:
> +        print_warning("Line is %d characters long (recommended limit is 100)"
>                        % len(line))
>          return True
>      return False
> 


Hi, 

Any comments on this?

Thanks,
Roi


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