[PATCH 5/6] staging: lustre: lustre: several over 80 characters cleanups

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 17:06 +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 11:01 -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > > Cleanup many of the over 80 characters reported by checkpatch
> > 
> > Please don't let checkpatch get in the way of lustre
> > readability.
> > 
> > lustre commonly uses very long identifiers.
> > Long identifiers and 80 columns don't mix well.
> > 
> > It might be simpler to declare in some document that
> > lustre uses lines of up to whatever length and require
> > that checkpatch should be used with the --max-line-length
> > option when run on lustre code.
> 
> Greg would you be okay with this?

I trust Greg isn't a zealot.

Linus Torvalds has said he prefers a longer line length
(up to 100 cols)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/15/749

> If we changed to a max-line-length to 
> say 128 thay would mean very few checkpatch issues would remain.