Re: [RFC PATCH v1 4/6] arm64: dts: rockchip: add rk3328 usb3 phy node

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 18/01/2025 11:10, Dragan Simic wrote:
> On 2025-01-18 10:52, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 18/01/2025 10:43, Dragan Simic wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Please see the commit bdc48fa11e46 (checkpatch/coding-style: 
>>>>> deprecate
>>>>> 80-column warning, 2020-05-29), which clearly shows that the 
>>>>> 80-column
>>>>> rule is still _preferred_, but no longer _mandatory_.
>>>>
>>>> I brought that commit, but nice that you also found it.
>>>>
>>>> Still: read the coding style, not checkpatch tool.
>>>>
>>>>>>> 80 columns is really not much (for the record, I've been around 
>>>>>>> when
>>>>>>> using 80x25 _physical_ CRT screens was the norm).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You mistake agreement on dropping strong restriction in 2020 in
>>>>>> checkpatch, which is "not for years" and even read that commit: 
>>>>>> "Yes,
>>>>>> staying withing 80 columns is certainly still _preferred_."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Checkpatch is not coding style. Since when it would be? It's just a
>>>>>> tool.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And there were more talks and the 80-preference got relaxed yet 
>>>>>> still
>>>>>> "not for years" (last talk was 2022?) and sill kernel coding style 
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> here specific.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's perhaps again about the semantics, this time about the meaning
>>>>> of "for years".  I don't think there's some strict definition of 
>>>>> that
>>>>> term, so perhaps different people see it differently.
>>>>>
>>>>> To get back to the above-mentioned commit bdc48fa11e46, the 
>>>>> 80-column
>>>>> limit has obviously been lifted, putting the new 100-column limit as
>>>>
>>>> "Lifted" on *CHECKPATCH*, not on coding style. Do you see the
>>
>> Repeating myself about because you are not addressing the actual 
>> difference.
> 
> Please see below.
> 
>>>> difference? One is a helper tool which people were using blindly and
>>>> wrapping lines without thinking, claiming that checkpatch told them 
>>>> to
>>>> do so. Other is the actual coding style.
>>>>
>>>> You claim that coding style was changed. This never happened.
>>>
>>> It was obviously changed in the commit bdc48fa11e46, by making the
>>> 80-column width preferred, instead of if being mandatory.  The way
>>> I read the changes to the coding style introduced in that commit,
>>> it's now possible to go over 80 columns, up to 100 columns, _if_
>>> that actually improves the readability of the source code.
>>
>> The commit is for checkpatch. Point to the change in coding style. You
>> are bringing argument for checkpatch, so only a tool, as argument for
>> coding style. Again, coding style did not change since years.
> 
> Commit bdc48fa11e46 obviously addresses 
> Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> as well, as visible in the quotation from the commit below:

Yes.

> 
>    -The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly

80 is here...

>    -preferred limit.
>    -
>    -Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible 
> chunks, unless
>    -exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does not 
> hide
>    -information. Descendants are always substantially shorter than the 
> parent and
>    -are placed substantially to the right. The same applies to function 
> headers
>    -with a long argument list. However, never break user-visible strings 
> such as
>    -printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them.
>    +The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns.
>    +
>    +Statements longer than 80 columns should be broken into sensible 

80 is here as well.

So now to your original statement:
" but the 100-column limit
for the kernel code has been in effect for years."

Where is 100? Only in checkpatch. There is no 100 limit in kernel coding
style.

The change in coding style and checkpatch was partially done because of
your understanding: reading checkpatch output as a rule. But this was
never a correct approach and still is not. So whatever checkpatch is
telling you, e.g. "100 column limit", is not coding style. It's only
checkpatch, a tool trying to help you.

> chunks,
>    +unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and 
> does
>    +not hide information.
>    +
>    +Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and are
>    +are placed substantially to the right.  A very commonly used style
>    +is to align descendants to a function open parenthesis.
>    +
>    +These same rules are applied to function headers with a long argument 
> list.
>    +
>    +However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages 
> because
>    +that breaks the ability to grep for them.
> 
> I think it's obvious that the 80-column width is no longer _strongly_
> preferred, but has been demoted to some kind of a bit weaker preference.

Yes, but this is not what you said before and this is not what I questioned.

> 
> Also, please note that the coding style explicitly says that the 80-
> column rule is to be followed "unless exceeding 80 columns significantly
> increases readability and does not hide information".

I already said it earlier... so yeah, we keep repeating ourselves while
discussing original point claiming now something else than we actually
discuss.

Best regards,
Krzysztof