From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Glenn Streiff <gstreiff@NetEffect.com>,
Faisal Latif <flatif@NetEffect.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:06:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080222020615.GE27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47BE2985.6020305@davidnewall.com>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:16:45PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> >> I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are
> >> anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps we should increase line length limit, 132 should be fine.
> > Especially useful with long printk() lines and long arithmetic
> > expressions.
> >
>
>
> Yes; or even longer. 80 characters might have made sense on a screen
> when the alternative was 80 characters on a punched card, but on a
> modern computer it's very restrictive. That's especially true with the
> deep indents that you quickly get in C
... if your style is lousy. I agree that situation with printks is
not normal in that respect and I certainly have no love for the
checkpatch nonsense, but pressure to keep the fucking nesting depth
low is a Good Thing(tm).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 22:59 [2.6 patch] infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c: fix off-by-one Adrian Bunk
2008-02-20 4:23 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2008-02-20 5:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-20 23:21 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-20 23:27 ` Glenn Streiff
2008-02-21 12:39 ` Glenn Streiff
2008-02-21 15:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-21 20:28 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-21 21:01 ` Merging of completely unreviewed drivers Adrian Bunk
2008-02-21 21:09 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-21 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-21 22:33 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-02-21 22:43 ` Greg KH
2008-02-21 22:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-21 22:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-02-21 23:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-21 23:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-21 23:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-22 0:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-21 23:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-22 0:05 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 0:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-22 2:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 10:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-22 18:45 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-22 22:44 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-23 9:43 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-23 12:38 ` David Newall
2008-02-23 15:25 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-24 3:18 ` David Newall
2008-02-23 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-24 3:26 ` David Newall
2008-02-24 4:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-23 13:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 1:46 ` David Newall
2008-02-22 2:06 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-02-22 2:23 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 3:13 ` Al Viro
2008-02-22 22:28 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-24 7:47 ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-24 14:47 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-22 6:29 ` [ofa-general] " Junio C Hamano
2008-02-22 9:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-22 6:37 ` Ray Lee
2008-02-23 15:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-24 3:22 ` David Newall
2008-02-22 22:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 12:29 ` [ofa-general] " Bart Van Assche
2008-02-22 14:25 ` David Newall
2008-02-22 15:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-22 16:48 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-22 22:59 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 23:14 ` Al Viro
2008-02-22 15:48 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-22 18:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-22 19:11 ` [ofa-general] " Bart Van Assche
2008-02-22 19:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-22 19:44 ` Greg KH
2008-02-21 21:30 ` Greg KH
2008-02-22 1:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-21 22:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-21 22:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-21 23:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-22 18:40 ` Pavel Machek
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