Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752268AbZLRNeK (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:34:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751098AbZLRNeI (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:34:08 -0500 Received: from mail1.slb.deg.dub.stisp.net ([84.203.253.98]:18405 "HELO mail1.slb.deg.dub.stisp.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751473AbZLRNeH (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:34:07 -0500 Message-ID: <4B2B8446.4060401@draigBrady.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:31:50 +0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9r?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ico_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 References: <200912171618.32882.bzolnier@gmail.com> <200912171708.07899.bzolnier@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 731 Lines: 17 On 17/12/09 16:21, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'd be ok with changing the warning to 132 characters, which is another > perfectly fine historical limit. Or we can split the difference, and say > "ok, 106 characters is too much". I don't care. But 80 characters is > causing too many idiotic changes. I find smaller limits help when you want to do side-by-side diffs, or `git blame` for example, but I agree there needs to be taste applied, so as to not mangle the code. cheers, P?draig. -- 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/