[PATCH] checkpatch: increase maximum line length to 100

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at barebox.org
Mon Oct 20 11:26:39 PDT 2025


Linux has bumped this variable to 100 as well and we do not mind longer
lines where it serves readability.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 1592497fb38a..734310ef834c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ my %ignore_type = ();
 my @ignore = ();
 my $help = 0;
 my $configuration_file = ".checkpatch.conf";
-my $max_line_length = 80;
+my $max_line_length = 100;
 my $ignore_perl_version = 0;
 my $minimum_perl_version = 5.10.0;
 my $min_conf_desc_length = 4;
-- 
2.47.3




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