linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist

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Message-ID: <m3wsyfzcpt.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:17:18 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist

Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> The intel-rng printed a nice well formatted message when the port was
> disabled. Someone then came along and blindly trashed it by screwing up a
> trim down to 80 columns.

Perhaps we should drop that 80-column style and use some 120+?
X or no X, almost all people now have more lines and columns on their
displays than MDA 20 years ago.

132 to match text VGA perhaps?
80 can be left for the actual _output_, I mean number of chars printed
by kernel code.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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