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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:01:25 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch	removed
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David Woodhouse a ?crit :
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 00:44 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Oh crap.  The damn thing wraps into column _1_ and gets tangled up with
>> ifdef statements, function definitions and other things which _should_ go
>> in column one.
> 
> It does that only for people with editors which wrap stuff like that
> into column 1. Those people (which includes myself on some occasions)
> are _used_ to seeing stuff like that in column 1, so it's natural. And
> it's text which is of little importance; not something which has much
> relevance to the code flow.
> 
>> It .looks.  .like.  .crap.  to many other people, and saying random stupid
>> wrong things doesn't alter that very simple fact.
> 
> No, it looks like crap for _some_ people. And making it look like crap
> for _everyone_, which is what your patch does, doesn't alter that fact
> either.

David,

Some readers of linux kernel sources are blind.
They use a kind of terminal that 'displays' a single line of 80 'characters' 
(or even 40) called a 'Braille Display'

This kind of terminal is very expensive, and I think the 80 column one is the 
most you can get (price : about 7000$).

I am ok to be a litle bit upset by this 80 limitation that looks odd on my 
1000$ 24" display, but reminds me the fact that some human people are different.

So please don't count me as part of your _everyone_.

Thank you
Eric
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