Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966918AbXFHBZo (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:25:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934880AbXFHBZh (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:25:37 -0400 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([69.61.125.42]:55513 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933212AbXFHBZg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:25:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:25:34 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Alistair John Strachan , Alan Cox , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist Message-ID: <20070608012534.GB23290@havoc.gtf.org> References: <20070607162251.5f291325@the-village.bc.nu> <200706072232.37051.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <4668AC10.9060305@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4668AC10.9060305@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 20 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:08:32PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > My big concern with the 80-column rule is that it discourages commenting. My concern with that logic is that encourages random, super-wide code lines that varies with each coder. You are left to the mercy of he with the widest text window. The 80-column rule is good as a general guideline, though there are obvious exceptions. Comments IMO are not one of them. That rapidly creates unreadable code. Jeff - 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/