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From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	apw@canonical.com, jschopp@austin.ibm.com, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the punch card limit
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:31:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1262849518.13621.2.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buopr5mobn7.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 12:07 +0900 schrieb Miles Bader:
> Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> writes:
> > The time of 80 characters punch card and terminals are over, so i would
> > be a good thing to set the line length limit to 120. Every display today
> > should be able handle this. And it think it make formated source code
> > more readable.
> 
> Anyway, I think the vague consensus seems to be that it's OK to go over
> 80 chars in many cases, but that it may be an indicator that some
> refactoring is in order....

That's why i didn't removed the check. 120 character should be good, it
should be not an indicator for refactoring. Especial with tab width of
8.

Stefani



      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-06 16:56 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the punch card limit Stefani Seibold
2010-01-07  3:07 ` Miles Bader
2010-01-07  7:31   ` Stefani Seibold [this message]

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