Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965195AbZLQPia (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:38:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965186AbZLQPi2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:38:28 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40621 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965183AbZLQPi0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:38:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:37:41 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= , 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: <200912171618.32882.bzolnier@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <2375c9f90912170131g3144ca2eydfa067c85f6ced44@mail.gmail.com> <200912171618.32882.bzolnier@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) 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: 596 Lines: 21 On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Examples? :) They're typically things like this: - ret = sscanf (buf, "0x%lx - 0x%lx", &start_addr, &end_addr); + ret = sscanf(buf, "0x%lx - 0x%lx", &start_addr, + &end_addr); ie a line-break that is just annoying and makes the code harder to read rather than easier. 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/