Re: [PATCH 2/4] hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) implement locking via the ACPI global lock

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 04:44:24PM +0200, Eugene Shalygin wrote:
> > First, you can go up to 100 columns nowadays. Second, the column
> > limit is waived for strings because it is more important to not
> > split them. If you _still_ want to stick with 80 columns, sorry,
> > no, I don't have a solution. Your problem is with the editor,
> > not with kernel formatting rules.
> 
> Thank you, Günter, 100 is better than 80 and the string fits. I
> wonder, why is the .clang-format file not updated and still says the
> limit is 80?

Because the documentation still says that 80 is preferred:

https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings

"The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns.

Statements longer than 80 columns should be broken into sensible chunks,
unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does
not hide information."

There have been a few different times that people have tried to update
the .clang-format file, which ultimately leads back to that paragraph in
the documentation.

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200610125147.2782142-1-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/r/03d462504887401ffbcdb58a392ad01923a2be7b.camel@perches.com/

A somewhat recent patch to try and update the documentation to match
checkpatch was posted but did not really go anywhere:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/d7130556-a8a4-76c0-0fde-b6b1439efda6@infradead.org/

Cheers,
Nathan