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Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Remove no longer used second struct cont
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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On 12/15/2016 07:50 PM, 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?
checkpatch.pl line 50
my $max_line_length = 80;

Not changed as of yet.
>
>                Linus