linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Increase the line length limit from 80 to 100 colums

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Date:	Fri, 3 Feb 2012 18:56:58 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Increase the line length limit from 80 to 100 colums

> So lets increase the limit to 100 cols - this is a nice round 
> limit, and it also happens to match with most developer xterm 
> sizes. Code that goes over 100 cols for no good reasons will be 
> arguably something worth fixing. (100 cols is also arguably 
> closer to various brain limits such as vision of field and 
> resolution restrictions, so we'll likely not have to increase 
> this limit for a couple of million years, for all retro human 
> genome users.)

I suppose the future computer to brain interfaces will just
do away with the concept of lines @)

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

-Andi
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