Re: [PATCH 3/4] agents: add coding style documentation and rules

Jakub Kicinski
2025-07-30T14:48:12Z

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:31:35 +0200 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> I pop up there a lot, but there is no confusion. I am (and maybe we are
> all?) well aware that checkpatch hard limit is 100 as explained also here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/df2e466a-cdaa-4263-ae16-7bf56c0edf21@kernel.org/
>
> But the coding style still says that preferred length limit is 80.
> Checkpatch is not a coding style. Coding style document is describing
> the coding style...
>
> People trust checkpatch way too much, thus its hard limit was raised.
> Some maintainers also agree with that, yet it does not invalidate what
> coding style document says.

Hear, hear!