Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:31:50 +0000 | From | Pádraig Brady <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl |
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On 17/12/09 16:21, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'd be ok with changing the warning to 132 characters, which is another > perfectly fine historical limit. Or we can split the difference, and say > "ok, 106 characters is too much". I don't care. But 80 characters is > causing too many idiotic changes.
I find smaller limits help when you want to do side-by-side diffs, or `git blame` for example, but I agree there needs to be taste applied, so as to not mangle the code.
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