linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6

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Message-ID: <20091112180439.GC20542@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:04:39 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andres Baldrich <andresbaldrich@...il.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> I'm really inclined to just remove the stupid thing entirely both from 
> coding-style and from checkpatch.
> 
> 80 columns do not matter. What matters is:
>  - indentation
>  - complex expressions and statements
> 
> and those two issues _together_ means that 80+ columns should be damn 
> rare, but the 80 columns itself is not at all that important.

i'd love to have that coupled with some check for too deep indentation. 
About half of the col-80 warnings i see are due to genuinely 
over-complex (and to-be-fixed) code.

Too bad that _those_ get ignored (because it's hard to fix) - while 
strings get broken up (because it's easy to 'fix') ;-)

So i'd very very much love to see some common-sense check for excessive 
indentation, and drop the col-80 warning altogether.

	Ingo
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