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Message-ID: <89f93c5f-e672-74aa-51c3-7829e6d9ef9b@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:17:54 +0300
From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...il.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] MIPS: cpu-probe: move fpu probing/handling into
its own file
Hello!
On 10/10/20 3:11 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>>> Umm, this has formatting issues with lines extending beyond column #80.
>>
>> 80 columns are no longer a line length limit -- 100 is, IIRC.
>
> I don't think anything has changed here:
Oh, it did! Look for max_line_length in scripts/checkpatch.pl. :-)
> "The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns.
>
> "Statements longer than 80 columns should be broken into sensible chunks,
> unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does
> not hide information."
>
> -- from Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, "Breaking long lines and
> strings".
>
> And if it were to change anytime, then I think it would make sense for
> such a new rule to apply to new files only. I would be strongly against
> it anyway, as the human's capability to parse lines has not changed when
> it comes to the quantity of characters easily processed at once: the angle
> spanned by eyes is hardwired. For this reason the GNU toolchain projects
The font sizea are not hardwired though...
> keep the limit even lower, at 74 columns (after extensive discussions).
This is also close to a limit on the patch descriptions...
> Maciej
MBR, Sergei
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