Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl | | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:18:32 +0100 |
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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? :)
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