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

[Paolo Bonzini]

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.

Paolo