From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:01:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup swiotlb.c a bit Message-Id: <20050106200144.GN27371@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: References: <200501060945.12364.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200501060945.12364.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:48:19AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:42:52 -0800, Jesse Barnes said: > > >> Well, I don't like how you "fixed" some of them and I continue > >> to be of the opinion that 100 cols is OK (yes, I know that > >> somebody managed to get the 80 cols into the kernel formatting > >> document, but that doesn't change reality...). > > Jesse> Yeah, I know, but your opinion is wrong :) I often find > Jesse> myself editing files on VTs or other 80 col terminals, and > Jesse> long lines are a pain... > > It's not opinion, it's reality. Unless someone goes through all the > files in the top-level directories and formats them to 80 cols, this > won't change. Personally, I don't mind it too much when code wraps a little bit. But the comments wrapping after 80 columns *really* bugs me. Probably because code has to read slower than prose anyway. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain