On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:16:45PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
