Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937081AbXFGVRd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:17:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935246AbXFGVRW (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:17:22 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:50420 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935198AbXFGVRW (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:17:22 -0400 To: Alan Cox Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist References: <20070607162251.5f291325@the-village.bc.nu> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:17:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070607162251.5f291325@the-village.bc.nu> (Alan Cox's message of "Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:22:51 +0100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 20 Alan Cox writes: > The intel-rng printed a nice well formatted message when the port was > disabled. Someone then came along and blindly trashed it by screwing up a > trim down to 80 columns. Perhaps we should drop that 80-column style and use some 120+? X or no X, almost all people now have more lines and columns on their displays than MDA 20 years ago. 132 to match text VGA perhaps? 80 can be left for the actual _output_, I mean number of chars printed by kernel code. -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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/