Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936296AbZLQPPM (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:15:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936193AbZLQPPJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:15:09 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50254 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935919AbZLQPPI (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:15:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:14:37 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Mikulas Patocka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon , dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl In-Reply-To: <2375c9f90912170131g3144ca2eydfa067c85f6ced44@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200912152326.34728.bzolnier@gmail.com> <2375c9f90912170131g3144ca2eydfa067c85f6ced44@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 611 Lines: 18 On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Américo Wang wrote: > > I like this patch, this is actually what I wanted to do. I have nothing against a switch, but it had better default to off. The whole 80-char limit is insane. It results in insane "fixes". Just about every time somebody "improves" a patch due to the warning, the result is worse than the original patch. Linus -- 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/