From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:59:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060119155933.GX4213@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137664692.8471.21.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Jan 19 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 17:17 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Documentation/CodingStyle says:
> >
> > The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit.
>
> Its so hard nobody follows it because in many places the results as Dave
> correctly points out are just stupid.
>
> Linux 2.6.16-rc1
> Number of files matching *.[c|h] : 15732
> Number with lines exceeding 80 columns : 6931
> As a percentage : 44%
>
> Fix the CodingStyle document instead
89% of all statistics are bogus, right? In those files, how many lines
are correctly wrapped even if some are > 80 chars?
I think the CodingStyle suggestion of 80 chars is just fine. I try to
stay within that, and I mostly succeed. The occasional over-the-line is
far better than advocation >> 80 chars per line imho.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-19 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200601190052.k0J0qmKC009977@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-01-19 5:21 ` - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch removed from -mm tree David Woodhouse
2006-01-19 6:17 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-01-19 6:24 ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-19 6:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19 6:40 ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-19 6:36 ` David S. Miller
2006-01-19 6:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-01-19 7:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19 7:18 ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-19 8:09 ` David S. Miller
2006-01-19 15:51 ` James Morris
2006-01-20 2:17 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-01-19 9:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-19 15:59 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-01-20 8:33 ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-20 8:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 8:59 ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-20 10:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-23 5:25 ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-20 23:44 ` Adrian Bunk
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