[PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit

[Stefani Seibold]

The time of 80 characters punch card and terminals are over, so i would
be a good thing to set the line length limit to 120. Every display today
should be able handle this. 
  
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 checkpatch.pl |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.33-rc2.orig/scripts/checkpatch.pl	2009-12-03 04:51:21.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.33-rc2.new/scripts/checkpatch.pl	2010-01-06 17:46:40.057565661 +0100
@@ -1374,13 +1374,13 @@ sub process {
 # check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk
 		next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|s|S|pl|sh)$/);
 
-#80 column limit
+#120 column limit
 		if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ &&
 		    $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ &&
 		    $line !~ /^\+\s*printk\s*\(\s*(?:KERN_\S+\s*)?"[X\t]*"\s*(?:,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ &&
-		    $length > 80)
+		    $length > 120)
 		{
-			WARN("line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr);
+			WARN("line over 120 characters\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
 # check for adding lines without a newline.





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