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

[Sasha Levin]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 10:21:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:10:25AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 07:40:36PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 03:58:01PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > +**80 character line limit**
> > > > +  The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns.
> >
> > Hrm, it is?
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst#n104
> > claims:
> >
> > 	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.
>
> That's true, it's not called out well enough. 80 is "preferred
> limit" but not the hard limit, which is 100. See commit bdc48fa11e46
> ("checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning")

Sadly it doesn't look like I'm the only one who's confused here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=%22checkpatch%2Fcoding-style%3A+deprecate+80-column+warning%22

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Thanks,
Sasha