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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Krzysztof Hałasa" <khalasa@piap.pl>
Cc: Mario Bambagini <mario.bambagini@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] defines modified to match the 80-char rule
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 08:30:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436369412.2682.78.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3twtho503.fsf@t19.piap.pl>

On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 14:16 +0200, Krzysztof Hałasa wrote:
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
> 
> >> So, could we have the localized readability when it makes sense,
> >> and the default rules when nothing else applies?
> >
> > Then the question becomes how local.
> 
> The answer seems easy to me: as much as it's needed to get the best
> readability.
> If that means 4 or 2 custom formatted lines, great. Why not?

Changing styles every few lines demands more
from a reader's pattern matching capabilities.

> It should be the maintainer's call anyway. It's (s)he who has to work
> with the code in question most.

True.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-23 21:21 [PATCH] defines modified to match the 80-char rule Mario Bambagini
2015-07-01  7:59 ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2015-07-02  6:20   ` Joe Perches
2015-07-02 18:01     ` Joe Perches
2015-07-03 10:58       ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2015-07-03 16:10         ` Joe Perches
2015-07-06  6:07           ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2015-07-06  8:07             ` Joe Perches
2015-07-06 12:16               ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2015-07-08 15:30                 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-07-06  8:30             ` Dan Carpenter

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