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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usb: make printk messges more searchable
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Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 10:42:17 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> Hi Wu,
>
> On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > Make USB printk messages long and straightforward. One of these
> > decorated USB error messages cost me some smart efforts to locate.
>
> That would make the code break the 80 columns limit.
>
> From "Documentation/CodingStyle":
>
> "The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly
> preferred limit."

Too rigid an application is bad. The kernel must be greppable.

Regards
Oliver


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