Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937460AbXFGWqe (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:46:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763911AbXFGWq0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:46:26 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:49928 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935230AbXFGWqZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:46:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=E572VGhkC6g52M7FzPz2cg7IXezX/Gm0M3o5YnX23sV50Z1Cu+wjzlSA1K5pICID3iwK+4BR89Rg8h8fl8IH2ROLu5flhxes04mgT+KFQvkOpZCcU5248p5a9jp7csO/JjoQRXEcXSJv6KQol3IkMnM38+ZIk5pZ+1ZDy/S5wzc= Message-ID: <9a8748490706071546k1f34a39s92102f7345ba4192@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 00:46:25 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Daniel Hazelton" Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist Cc: "Krzysztof Halasa" , "Alan Cox" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org In-Reply-To: <200706071832.13486.dhazelton@enter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070607162251.5f291325@the-village.bc.nu> <200706071832.13486.dhazelton@enter.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1883 Lines: 42 On 08/06/07, Daniel Hazelton wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007 17:17:18 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > 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. > > Why? My consoles are *all* still 80x24 text mode. It's only if I decide to > monkey with the settings (and why fix what isn't broken?) or when I'm in X > that I get a bigger screen than that. > > I think the general consensus on the 80 character lines isn't for the average > home user, but for the people that have things like old Wyse terminals and > such hooked up. > Hmm, perhaps my eyes are just not as good as other peoples, but my X runs at 1600x1200 and I have konsole in KDE configured so that when it is maximized it is very close to a 80x25 window (actually it is 82x31 with a size 18 font). Nice and readable, if I make the font any smaller to fit more cols/rows then the text gets too small and my eyes hurt. Reading kernel code formatted for 80cols fits perfectly for me. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/