Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753972Ab0A1R6m (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:58:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753503Ab0A1R6m (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:58:42 -0500 Received: from mail3.caviumnetworks.com ([12.108.191.235]:17864 "EHLO mail3.caviumnetworks.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753252Ab0A1R6l (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:58:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4B61D02A.9030500@caviumnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:58:02 -0800 From: David Daney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Stefani Seibold , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , apw@canonical.com, jschopp@austin.ibm.com, davej@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit References: <1264597747.3607.29.camel@wall-e> <87hbq6dy2k.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <87hbq6dy2k.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Jan 2010 17:58:04.0833 (UTC) FILETIME=[70BF7910:01CAA043] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 27 Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. >> >> Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold > > Full Ack! > > -Andi I agree, but if people still have problems with it, perhaps reevaluating Joe Perches' patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/18/3 could be an alternative. David Daney -- 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/