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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 13:29:42 -0600 From: Scott Matheina <scott@...heina.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Remove no longer used second struct cont On 12/15/2016 07:50 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky > <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com> wrote: >> basically I'm talking about a bunch of 80-cols fixups. > Please don't. > > Nobody uses a vt100 terminal any more. The 80-column wrapping is > excessive, and makes things like "grep" not work as well. > > No, we still don't want excessively long lines, but that's generally > mainly because > > (a) we don't want to have excessively _complicated_ lines > > (b) we don't want to have excessively deep indentation (so if line > length is due to 4+ levels of indentation, that's usually the primary > problem). > > (c) email quoting gets iffier and uglier, so short lines always are > preferred if possible > > but in general, aside from those concerns, a long legible line is > generally preferred over just adding line breaks for the very > _occasional_ line. > > At the 100-column mark you almost have to break, because at that point > people may start to be actually limited by their displays, but 80 > columns generally isn't it. > > In fact, I thought we already upped the check-patch limit to 100? checkpatch.pl line 50 my $max_line_length = 80; Not changed as of yet. > > Linus
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