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Subject[PATCH] docs: Update the preferred line size to 100 characters
From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

As commit bdc48fa11e46f ("checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column
warning") states:

Increase the default limit to 100 characters. Not because 100
characters is some hard limit either, but that's certainly a "what are
you doing" kind of value and less likely to be about the occasional
slightly longer lines.

It's 2022, people are not using 80x24 terminals anymore (well I'm sure
someone is, but they are the small minority).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
index 03eb53fd029a..73be9edffede 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
@@ -101,10 +101,10 @@ Get a decent editor and don't leave whitespace at the end of lines.
Coding style is all about readability and maintainability using commonly
available tools.

-The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns.
+The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 100 columns.

-Statements longer than 80 columns should be broken into sensible chunks,
-unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does
+Statements longer than 100 columns should be broken into sensible chunks,
+unless exceeding 100 columns significantly increases readability and does
not hide information.

Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and
--
2.33.0
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