Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Increase the line length limit from80 to 100 colums

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 22:55 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> I am throwing in the suggestion to augment checkpatch 
> such that it does not look at whether single lines are over $limit, but 
> whether a certain percentage of lines of a file is over $limit. That, 
> together with a badness value that is e.g. following some power law to 
> the amount of chars too much, but not when the line cannot be broken
> in the first place. Maybe along the lines of
> 
>  #perlish#
>  foreach (<>) {
>      /^\s+\S+/;
>      if (length($_) > length($&)) {
>          push @candidate, $_;
>          $badness += (length($_) - length($&)) ** 1.5;
>      }
>  }
>  if ($badness > $threshold) {
>      warn about @candidate_lines;
>  }

I'd be OK with something like this while making the
current line length check a --strict only option.


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