On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 16:27 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 3:54 PM Christophe Leroy
> > powerpc accepts lines up to 90 chars, see arch/powerpc/tools/checkpatch.pl
>
> Ugh, I did not know this. Horrible.
>
> The Linux coding style should be global in the kernel tree.
> No subsystem should adopts its own coding style.
I don't see a problem using 90 column lines by arch/<foo>
There are other subsystem specific variations like the net/
/* multiline comments without initial blank comment lines
* look like this...
*/
If there were arch specific drivers with style variations
in say drivers/net, then that might be more of an issue.
