Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] CODING_STYLE, checkpatch: update line length rules

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> On 07/09/2015 17:17, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> > +                 } elsif ($length > 76 && !($rawline =~ /^\+ \* /)) {
>>> > +                         # The BSD license blurb has 80 character lines.
>>> > +                         # Avoid warning on cut-and-pasted license text.
>> Why not simply reflow all the offending license blurbs?
>> 
>> Want me to prep such a patch?
>
> Actually there are other license blurbs with 80-character lines.  It's
> just that for the GPL we just refer to the COPYING file most of the
> time, instead of TYPING SEVERAL LINES ABOUT MERCHANTABILITY, whatever it is.

My offer to "reflow all the offending license blurbs" includes all of
them.