Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161298AbWASJ67 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:58:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161299AbWASJ67 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:58:59 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:20459 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161298AbWASJ66 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:58:58 -0500 Subject: Re: - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch removed from -mm tree From: Alan Cox To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: David Woodhouse , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060119171708.7f856b42.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> References: <200601190052.k0J0qmKC009977@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1137648119.30084.94.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060119171708.7f856b42.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:58:11 +0000 Message-Id: <1137664692.8471.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 24 On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 17:17 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Documentation/CodingStyle says: > > The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit. Its so hard nobody follows it because in many places the results as Dave correctly points out are just stupid. Linux 2.6.16-rc1 Number of files matching *.[c|h] : 15732 Number with lines exceeding 80 columns : 6931 As a percentage : 44% Fix the CodingStyle document instead Alan - 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/