linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:01:04 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
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 80 charactes punch card limit

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. 

I thought it's been already agreed that the limit is lifted altogether?
Not even the 132 that was considered by some people sane enough.

The other thing is that fine "code complexity", but I think checkpatch
can't check it ATM, can it?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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