Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965152AbZLQPTx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:19:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965079AbZLQPTq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:19:46 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:55334 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965138AbZLQPTo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:19:44 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Fey0yammuVFS/DPesLmz/9N43X97iF2NVrcdDyf7sIpOZqBEDecJvq7fKUGYvhS12/ ij0UMO5zV/2HqWL87erw56I+KZ5VxsfXiFt4xhLCzG/s9069pPM//tFwTaZqoCA2ZrN5 HHvGfr1jotF10nSApSdPpitDabjk53lUisN9s= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:18:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.32-0.1-desktop; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: =?utf-8?q?Am=C3=A9rico_Wang?= , Mikulas Patocka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon , dm-devel@redhat.com References: <2375c9f90912170131g3144ca2eydfa067c85f6ced44@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200912171618.32882.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 728 Lines: 21 On Thursday 17 December 2009 04:14:37 pm Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. Examples? :) -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz -- 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/