Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:09:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:09:07 -0500 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.1]:39383 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:09:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:38:53 +0100 (MET) From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Message-Id: To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: silly [< >] and other excess Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From rmk@caramon.arm.linux.org.uk Thu Nov 23 00:17:21 2000 Well, in my experience, values of PC (or EIP is x86 speak) rarely appear over column 50 on the screen. Therefore, removing them is only going to save width, not height. The EIP is not pushed out of sight horizontally, but vertically. (Maybe you never saw a i386 oops. With [<>] the call trace takes twice as many lines (on a 25x80 screen) as without.) Also, have you considered that not every oops is formatted exactly the same way on every architecture? Do you propose to teach klogd and ksymoops every single oops format style? It is a triviality. Besides, the patch only modified i386. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/