From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:19:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100129051953.GM28459@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17r837-m29.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu>
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 04:39:29PM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> 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.
Linus has already agreed that the 80 character limit is stupid. Let's
just nuke this check from checkpatch.pl and move on.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-29 18:38 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
2010-01-29 5:19 ` tytso [this message]
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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