Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754839AbZLQXfd (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:35:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751840AbZLQXfa (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:35:30 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:45368 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751054AbZLQXf0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:35:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:35:20 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Paul Mundt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Alasdair G Kergon , dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl Message-ID: <20091217233520.GH18217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20091217061229.GD3946@linux-sh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 20 On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:29:25PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > No. If someone wrote an expression too long to be understood, he will not > understand it when maintaining his code, he burns himself and he will > eventually learn to not write such long expressions. Or ... if he > understands it, there is no problem with it. Yes, there is. Somebody else trying to find a bug. And having to figure out which of five unfamiliar pieces of code is likelier candidate. > There is no need to make a script for it. The script isn't so smart to > tell what is understandable and what is nto. Oh, definitely. No arguments on that one... -- 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/