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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	"Mikulas Patocka" <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Alasdair G Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:18:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912171618.32882.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912170713390.17868@localhost.localdomain>

On Thursday 17 December 2009 04:14:37 pm Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Américo Wang wrote:
> > 
> > I like this patch, this is actually what I wanted to do.
> 
> I have nothing against a switch, but it had better default to off.
> 
> The whole 80-char limit is insane. It results in insane "fixes". Just 
> about every time somebody "improves" a patch due to the warning, the 
> result is worse than the original patch.

Examples? :)

--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-17 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-15 21:57 [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-15 22:26 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17  9:31   ` Américo Wang
2009-12-17 15:14     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 15:18       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2009-12-17 15:37         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 16:08           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 16:21             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 16:30               ` Janakiram Sistla
2009-12-17 18:05               ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-18 13:31               ` Pádraig Brady
2009-12-18 16:32               ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 22:33                 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 13:04         ` Jiri Kosina
2009-12-18 13:55           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-18 14:39             ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-27 17:15             ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-21  6:32           ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-22 15:10             ` Jiri Kosina
2009-12-16 10:58 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-16 19:59 ` Alex Chiang
2009-12-17  6:12 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-17  8:34   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-17 23:29     ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-17 23:35       ` Al Viro
2009-12-18  4:29       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-12-18  5:12         ` [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: Change long line warning to 105 chars Joe Perches
2009-12-18  5:57           ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-18 17:43             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 17:54               ` Joe Perches
2009-12-18 18:41               ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-18 14:37           ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 15:12             ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2009-12-18 16:58               ` Randy Dunlap
2009-12-18 17:12                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 22:36                   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 17:31             ` Joe Perches
2009-12-18 14:28         ` [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 14:52           ` kevin granade
2009-12-18 16:43             ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 16:50               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 17:09                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 17:28                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 21:15               ` kevin granade
2009-12-18 15:11           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 22:37   ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-17 23:12     ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-17 23:33       ` Mikulas Patocka

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