Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754392Ab3IXRnw (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:43:52 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:42993 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752589Ab3IXRnv (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:43:51 -0400 Message-ID: <5241CF3C.8040403@ahsoftware.de> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:43:24 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130805 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bjorn Helgaas CC: Dan Carpenter , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: checkpatch guide for newbies References: <20130923090100.GE6192@mwanda> <5241CB44.8080004@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: <5241CB44.8080004@ahsoftware.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1690 Lines: 44 Am 24.09.2013 19:26, schrieb Alexander Holler: > Am 24.09.2013 18:36, schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Dan Carpenter >> wrote: >>> Long Lines >>> >>> Historically screens were 80 characters wide and it was annoying when >>> code went >>> over the edge. These days we have larger screens, but we keep the 80 >>> character >>> limit because it forces us to write simpler code. > > Sorry, but that just isn't true and never was. Having a line wide limit > of 80 characters while forcing tabs to be 8 characters long limits most > code to just 72 characters. And even less (max 64) inside constructs > like if, for or while. > > The only outcome of that totally silly rule is that variable names will > become shorted to silly acronyms almost nobody does understand make code > unreadable. I forgot to mention function names, which are often even worse shortened than variable names. > > I always feel like beeing in the IT stone age when programmers thought > they have to use variable names like a, b and c to save storage, memory > or to type less when reading linux kernel code. > > Regards, > > Alexander Holler > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/