Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754866AbZCFPEF (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:04:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751624AbZCFPDw (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:03:52 -0500 Received: from fifo99.com ([67.223.236.141]:52479 "EHLO fifo99.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751245AbZCFPDv (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:03:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [tip:x86/doc] x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp From: Daniel Walker To: Alan Stern Cc: Randy Dunlap , Yinghai Lu , mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de, sarah.a.sharp@intel.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:03:48 -0800 Message-Id: <1236351828.5937.130.camel@desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 18 On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 09:57 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > It is _not_ diehard, at least not according to Linus. He has posted a > couple of messages expressing his opinion that overall readability is > more important than sticking rigidly to 80 columns. My experience has been that anyone sending over 80 columns is sure to get slammed, just like with this document patch. So when I say it's die hard that's what I mean. Plus we have the checkpatch clean phenomenon. So Linus may not care but everyone else on this list does seem to care.. Daniel -- 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/