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Message-Id: <200912171618.32882.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:18:32 +0100
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...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 Thursday 17 December 2009 04:14:37 pm Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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.

Examples? :)

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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