Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755465Ab0A1SIl (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:08:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754068Ab0A1SIk (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:08:40 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35263 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754067Ab0A1SIk (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:08:40 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alexander Clouter Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:39:29 +0000 Message-ID: <17r837-m29.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu> References: <1264597747.3607.29.camel@wall-e> <87hbq6dy2k.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: chipmunk.wormnet.eu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-2-sparc64-smp (sparc64)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 21 Andi Kleen wrote: > >> 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! > NACK Attack! There is a reason Knuth only put so many words on a line with TeX. Eugh. Cheers -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: Keep out of reach of children. -- 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/