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From: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:39:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17r837-m29.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87hbq6dy2k.fsf@basil.nowhere.org

Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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. 
>>   
>> Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
> 
> Full Ack!
> 
NACK Attack!

There is a reason Knuth only put so many words on a line with TeX.

Eugh.

Cheers

-- 
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: Keep out of reach of children.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-28 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-27 13:09 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit Stefani Seibold
2010-01-27 18:07 ` Joel Schopp
2010-01-27 19:01   ` David Daney
2010-01-27 20:31     ` Joel Schopp
2010-01-27 20:42       ` David Daney
2010-01-27 21:36       ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-28 15:54 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-28 16:39   ` Alexander Clouter [this message]
2010-01-29  5:19     ` tytso
2010-01-29 18:49       ` Joe Perches
2010-02-01 10:53     ` Simon Farnsworth
2010-01-28 17:58   ` David Daney
2010-01-28 16:01 ` Krzysztof Halasa

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