Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] devtools: clarify that lines up to 100 characters are ok

["Walsh, Conor" <conor.walsh@intel.com>]

> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson
> Sent: Wednesday 20 October 2021 15:26
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>; Richardson,
> Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] devtools: clarify that lines up to 100
> characters are ok
> 
> Since we allow line lengths of up to 100, and the CI checkpatches job
> only check for that amount, the rest of our tooling and docs should
> reflect this reality. Therefore we can:
> 
> * adjust the editorconfig to use that value, to save editors (e.g. vim)
>   from automatically wrapping lines at 80 characters when typing.
>   [Since python checkers all seem to expect 79 character lines max, add
>   for python only a 79-char max line length.]
> 
> * change the default line length setting in checkpatches script to 100
>   so as it matches CI and pre-merge checks.
> 
> * update the docs to clarify that while 80 chars is recommended, up to
>   100 characters is acceptable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---

I think it would be great to have clarity around this, since it seems to already be allowed.
Acked-by: Conor Walsh <conor.walsh@intel.com>