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

[Bruce Richardson]

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 at intel.com>
---
V2: update the checkpatches default and the docs.

---
 .editorconfig                            | 3 ++-
 devtools/checkpatches.sh                 | 2 +-
 doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index 5101630c8c..ab41c95085 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -11,11 +11,12 @@ trim_trailing_whitespace = true
 charset = utf-8
 indent_style = tab
 tab_width = 8
-max_line_length = 80
+max_line_length = 100
 
 [*.py]
 indent_style = space
 indent_size = 4
+max_line_length = 79
 
 [meson.build]
 indent_style = space
diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index c314d83a29..205b8a52bf 100755
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ VALIDATE_NEW_API=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))/check-symbol-change.sh
 # Codespell can also be enabled by setting DPDK_CHECKPATCH_CODESPELL to a valid path
 # to a dictionary.txt file if dictionary.txt is not in the default location.
 codespell=${DPDK_CHECKPATCH_CODESPELL:-enable}
-length=${DPDK_CHECKPATCH_LINE_LENGTH:-80}
+length=${DPDK_CHECKPATCH_LINE_LENGTH:-100}
 
 # override default Linux options
 options="--no-tree"
diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
index b27b5fcfdb..1ce5d00e36 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Line length is recommended to be not more than 80 characters, including comments
 .. note::
 
 	The above is recommendation, and not a hard limit.
-	However, it is expected that the recommendations should be followed in all but the rarest situations.
+	Generally, line lengths up to 100 characters are acceptable in the code.
 
 C Comment Style
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