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* Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/coding-style: Allow 100 column lines
@ 2020-05-30 11:40 Markus Elfring
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From: Markus Elfring @ 2020-05-30 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joe Perches, kernel-janitors, linux-fsdevel,
	linux-security-module, netfilter-devel
  Cc: linux-kernel, Al Viro, Casey Schaufler, Christoph Hellwig,
	David Howells, David Laight, Ian Kent, Linus Torvalds

> Change the maximum allowed line length to 100 from 80.
>
> Miscellanea:
>
> o to avoid unnecessary whitespace changes in files,
>   checkpatch will no longer emit a warning about line length
>   when scanning files unless --strict is also used
> o Add a bit to coding-style about alignment to open parenthesis

I suggest to convert this patch into a patch series with three update steps.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=86852175b016f0c6873dcbc24b93d12b7b246612#n138> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -84,15 +84,22 @@ …
> +… and are
> +are placed …

Please avoid a word duplication here.


> +… to a function open parenthesis.

Wording alternatives:

+is to align descendants to an open parenthesis of a function call.


> +These same rules are …

+The same rules are applied to function headers with a long argument list.


Regards,
Markus

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