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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912170726230.17868@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:37:41 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
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 Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Examples? :)

They're typically things like this:

-			ret = sscanf (buf, "0x%lx - 0x%lx", &start_addr, &end_addr);
+			ret = sscanf(buf, "0x%lx - 0x%lx", &start_addr,
+				&end_addr);

ie a line-break that is just annoying and makes the code harder to read 
rather than easier. 

			Linus
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