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From: Andi Drebes <lists-receive@programmierforen.de>
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Subject: Re: Ideas on column length in kernel "problem"?
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> Many free (and not-free) mail clients wordwrap.  Hushmail wraps at 
> 68 (verified), Yahoo has options to wrap at a max of 99, and Gmail 
> was somewhere around 85-90 as I recall.  Not sure on other free / 
> inexpensive clients.  
It happens so often that people send mangled patches that it might be useful 
to create a wiki page or something with the most common email clients and a 
sample configuration that prevents them from mangling patches. Maybe somebody 
feels like doing so in his / her spare time.
 
> However, several code modules have code lines with column lengths 
> well over 80 (the worst I have seen was 211).  This prevents people 
> with "minimal function" email clients (I'm being generous) from 
> making changes in the area of these long code lines, or from even 
> submitting fixes for the line length problem in modules themselves.
I think this is also a matter of conding style. Documentation/CodingStyle 
says:

"The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit."

So actually there shouldn't be any line longer than that. Perhaps it would be 
nice to create a patches that shorten the lines and to send them to the 
kernel-janitors ml.

<snip>
> Note -- I am well aware that us 'poor users' could just 'get a real 
> email service', and if anyone knows of a free/inexpensive mail 
> client that will be able to handle the wordwrap requirements for 
> the current state of the linux tree please advise.
see above.

	Cheers,
		Andi
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