Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756248Ab0AGHc5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:32:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755915Ab0AGHc4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:32:56 -0500 Received: from www84.your-server.de ([213.133.104.84]:38742 "EHLO www84.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754901Ab0AGHc4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:32:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the punch card limit From: Stefani Seibold To: Miles Bader Cc: linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , apw@canonical.com, jschopp@austin.ibm.com, davej@redhat.com In-Reply-To: References: <1262796984.1011.17.camel@wall-e> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:31:58 +0100 Message-ID: <1262849518.13621.2.camel@wall-e> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: stefani@seibold.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 936 Lines: 23 Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 12:07 +0900 schrieb Miles Bader: > Stefani Seibold writes: > > The time of 80 characters punch card and terminals are over, so i would > > be a good thing to set the line length limit to 120. Every display today > > should be able handle this. And it think it make formated source code > > more readable. > > Anyway, I think the vague consensus seems to be that it's OK to go over > 80 chars in many cases, but that it may be an indicator that some > refactoring is in order.... That's why i didn't removed the check. 120 character should be good, it should be not an indicator for refactoring. Especial with tab width of 8. Stefani -- 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/