linux-kernel - Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

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Message-ID: <47BE1AD8.4060600@garzik.org>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:44:08 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Glenn Streiff <gstreiff@...Effect.com>,
	Faisal Latif <flatif@...Effect.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> writes:
> 
>> If a driver is full of lines of length >80, that's a problem.
> 
> I'm not sure.
> We all have more than 80-chars wide displays for years, don't we? The

Every time this discussion comes up, people point out that it remains 
highly common to open multiple 80-column terminal windows, making the 
80-column limit still highly relevant in modern times.


> The
> problem is [...] code which is too
> complex and which may sometimes have too many levels of indentation.

Quite true.

	Jeff


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