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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, "Gan Qixin" <ganqixin@huawei.com>,
	"Chenqun (kuhn)" <kuhn.chenqun@huawei.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] CODING_STYLE.rst: Be less strict about 80 character limit
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 2020 11:29:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201106112940.31300-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org> (raw)

Relax the wording about line lengths a little bit; this goes with the
checkpatch changes to warn at 100 characters rather than 80.

(Compare the Linux kernel commit bdc48fa11e46f8; our coding style is
not theirs, but the rationale is good and applies to us too.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
---
 CODING_STYLE.rst | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CODING_STYLE.rst b/CODING_STYLE.rst
index 8b13ef0669e..7bf4e39d487 100644
--- a/CODING_STYLE.rst
+++ b/CODING_STYLE.rst
@@ -85,8 +85,13 @@ Line width
 Lines should be 80 characters; try not to make them longer.
 
 Sometimes it is hard to do, especially when dealing with QEMU subsystems
-that use long function or symbol names.  Even in that case, do not make
-lines much longer than 80 characters.
+that use long function or symbol names. If wrapping the line at 80 columns
+is obviously less readable and more awkward, prefer not to wrap it; better
+to have an 85 character line than one which is awkwardly wrapped.
+
+Even in that case, try not to make lines much longer than 80 characters.
+(The checkpatch script will warn at 100 characters, but this is intended
+as a guard against obviously-overlength lines, not a target.)
 
 Rationale:
 
-- 
2.20.1



             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-06 11:29 Peter Maydell [this message]
2020-11-06 13:10 ` [PATCH] CODING_STYLE.rst: Be less strict about 80 character limit Markus Armbruster
2020-11-06 16:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-13 16:51 ` Laurent Vivier

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