I wrote some code (I'm an engineer) that ended up being the core logic of a HW driver that was linked to linux. One of the actions by the SW dev team was to ref

I wrote some code (I'm an engineer) that ended up being the core logic of a HW driver that was linked to linux. One of the actions by the SW dev team was to reformat it to 80 chars wide. Made it less readable by a long way, even spilt up strings into multiple sections, if they heaven forbid, ran over the golden limit. They assured my it was a requirement to be upstreamed. It does not seem to be based on this, so who is pushing this 80 char standard?