Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756206AbZCFPzf (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:55:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754775AbZCFPz0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:55:26 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:58138 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754581AbZCFPzZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:55:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:55:23 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Daniel Walker cc: Randy Dunlap , Yinghai Lu , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [tip:x86/doc] x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp In-Reply-To: <1236351828.5937.130.camel@desktop> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 982 Lines: 24 On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Daniel Walker wrote: > 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.. Well, I wouldn't have said anything if you ran over by only a few characters. But your line was 97 characters long! Alan Stern -- 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/