Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:19:53 -0500 | From | tytso@mit ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit |
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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
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