Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936110AbYBVAoe (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:44:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761261AbYBVAoZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:44:25 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:36170 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759021AbYBVAoY (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:44:24 -0500 Message-ID: <47BE1AD8.4060600@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:44:08 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Roland Dreier , Glenn Streiff , Faisal Latif , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org, Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers References: <5E701717F2B2ED4EA60F87C8AA57B7CC0794FFF1@venom2> <5E701717F2B2ED4EA60F87C8AA57B7CC0794FFFF@venom2> <20080221154951.GA28328@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080221210124.GD28328@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <47BE0C12.604@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 804 Lines: 27 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Jeff Garzik writes: > >> If a driver is full of lines of length >80, that's a problem. > > I'm not sure. > We all have more than 80-chars wide displays for years, don't we? The Every time this discussion comes up, people point out that it remains highly common to open multiple 80-column terminal windows, making the 80-column limit still highly relevant in modern times. > The > problem is [...] code which is too > complex and which may sometimes have too many levels of indentation. Quite true. 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/