linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:14:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
cc:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	dm-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl



On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Américo Wang wrote:
> 
> I like this patch, this is actually what I wanted to do.

I have nothing against a switch, but it had better default to off.

The whole 80-char limit is insane. It results in insane "fixes". Just 
about every time somebody "improves" a patch due to the warning, the 
result is worse than the original patch.

		Linus
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