Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756037AbYLJJyp (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:54:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753549AbYLJJyg (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:54:36 -0500 Received: from smtp-out002.kontent.com ([81.88.40.216]:53294 "EHLO smtp-out002.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751993AbYLJJyg (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:54:36 -0500 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: Novell To: Laurent Pinchart Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: make printk messges more searchable Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:56:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Wu Fengguang , LKML , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org References: <20081210072921.GA18142@localhost> <200812101042.17530.laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> In-Reply-To: <200812101042.17530.laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812101056.15457.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 23 Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 10:42:17 schrieb Laurent Pinchart: > Hi Wu, > > On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > Make USB printk messages long and straightforward. One of these > > decorated USB error messages cost me some smart efforts to locate. > > That would make the code break the 80 columns limit. > > From "Documentation/CodingStyle": > > "The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly > preferred limit." Too rigid an application is bad. The kernel must be greppable. Regards Oliver -- 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/