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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
	Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>, Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fit line in 80 columns
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:54:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220825225425.hp2ylp5rxq453ewl@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADnVQ+yM_R4vuCLxtNJb0sp61ar=grJh9KmLWVGhXA7Lhpmvw@mail.gmail.com>

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[sorry for the big CC]

At 2022-08-25T11:06:55-0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> Nack.
> 
> We don't follow 80 char limit and are not going to because of man
> pages.

If someone got a contract with O'Reilly or No Starch Press to write a
book on BPF and how revolutionarily awesome it is, it's conceivable they
would be faced with exposing some BPF-related function declarations in
the text.  In cases like the following, what would you have them do?

int bpf_map_update_elem(struct bpf_map *map, const void *key, const void *value, u64 flags)

Be aware that the author may not have infinite flexibility; publishers
generally impose a "house style" which restricts selection of typeface
(so they can't necessarily print at a smaller type size or with the
kerning reduced beyond a certain point to squeeze the text onto the
line).

Regards,
Branden

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-25 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-25 17:56 [PATCH] Fit line in 80 columns Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-25 18:06 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-08-25 21:36   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2022-08-25 21:51     ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-25 21:54       ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-25 22:54   ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2022-08-26  0:25     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-08-26  0:45     ` Seth David Schoen
2022-08-27  7:20     ` Greg KH
2022-08-29 19:58 ` [PATCH v2] Fit lines " Alejandro Colomar
2022-08-29 20:29   ` Daniel Borkmann

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