From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266902AbUBMKPd (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:15:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266904AbUBMKPc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:15:32 -0500 Received: from mail-07.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.39]:22223 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266902AbUBMKP0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:15:26 -0500 Message-ID: <402CA267.4090202@cyberone.com.au> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:09:43 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Frank CC: Andrew Morton , Giuliano Pochini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle References: <200402130615.10608.mhf@linuxmail.org> <20040213011012.12645046.akpm@osdl.org> <200402131749.19758.mhf@linuxmail.org> In-Reply-To: <200402131749.19758.mhf@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Frank wrote: >On Friday 13 February 2004 17:10, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> >>Yes, 80 cols sucks and the world would be a better place had CodingStyle >>mandated 96 columns five years ago. But it didn't happen. >> >> > >As to "five years ago", what about review the coding style situation before >starting 2.7: > >In view of better hardware, increasing linelength a little to 96 could be >considered without increasing the number of indentation levels. > > I hope not, I usually use 80 columns. Email's using 80 columns. And lines start becoming difficult for the eyes to follow as they get longer. Maybe this isn't so much a problem with C code due to indentation and the sparseness of the lines.