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    checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning · bdc48fa1
    Joe Perches authored
    Yes, staying withing 80 columns is certainly still _preferred_.  But
    it's not the hard limit that the checkpatch warnings imply, and other
    concerns can most certainly dominate.
    
    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.
    
    Miscellanea:
    
     - to avoid unnecessary whitespace changes in files, checkpatch will no
       longer emit a warning about line length when scanning files unless
       --strict is also used
    
     - Add a bit to coding-style about alignment to open parenthesis
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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