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Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Remove no longer used second struct cont
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
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        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:57:12 -0800
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On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 17:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky
> <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > basically I'm talking about a bunch of 80-cols fixups.
> 
> Please don't.
> 
> Nobody uses a vt100 terminal any more. The 80-column wrapping is
> excessive, and makes things like "grep" not work as well.
> 
> No, we still don't want excessively long lines, but that's generally
> mainly because
> 
>  (a) we don't want to have excessively _complicated_ lines
> 
>  (b) we don't want to have excessively deep indentation (so if line
> length is due to 4+ levels of indentation, that's usually the primary
> problem).
> 
>  (c) email quoting gets iffier and uglier, so short lines always are
> preferred if possible
> 
> but in general, aside from those concerns, a long legible line is
> generally preferred over just adding line breaks for the very
> _occasional_ line.
> 
> At the 100-column mark you almost have to break, because at that point
> people may start to be actually limited by their displays, but 80
> columns generally isn't it.
> 
> In fact, I thought we already upped the check-patch limit to 100?

Nope, CodingStyle neither.

Last time I tried was awhile ago.