linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the punch card limit

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Message-ID: <1262849518.13621.2.camel@wall-e>
Date:	Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:31:58 +0100
From:	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
To:	Miles Bader <miles@....org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, apw@...onical.com,
	jschopp@...tin.ibm.com, davej@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the punch card limit

Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 12:07 +0900 schrieb Miles Bader:
> Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net> writes:
> > The time of 80 characters punch card and terminals are over, so i would
> > be a good thing to set the line length limit to 120. Every display today
> > should be able handle this. And it think it make formated source code
> > more readable.
> 
> Anyway, I think the vague consensus seems to be that it's OK to go over
> 80 chars in many cases, but that it may be an indicator that some
> refactoring is in order....

That's why i didn't removed the check. 120 character should be good, it
should be not an indicator for refactoring. Especial with tab width of
8.

Stefani


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