[PATCH 6/9] nvme-apple: Add initial Apple SoC NVMe driver

Sven Peter sven at svenpeter.dev
Mon Apr 4 09:03:28 PDT 2022



On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, at 17:59, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:57:33AM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
>> The kernel hard limit is 100-character lines, not 80-character lines.
>> Maintainers for existing drivers are certainly free to stick to 80 chars
>> if they like it that way, but I don't see why we should still be
>> enforcing that for new code. See bdc48fa11e46.
>
> Because 100 is completely utterly unreadable if is not for individual
> lines like strings, and that is actually how Linus stated it in CodingStyle.
>
> Your code as-is is completely unreadable and will not go into
> drivers/nvme/ in that form.

fwiw, I wrote that code and I just forgot to check the line length
after some last minute changes again.
It's already been reduced to 80 chars in my local tree.


Sven



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