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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] MIPS: cpu-probe: move fpu probing/handling into its own file
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:11:18 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2010101259400.866917@eddie.linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d87a08c-3ae3-fc32-8e96-5692944b8289@gmail.com>

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> >   Umm, this has formatting issues with lines extending beyond column #80.
> 
>    80 columns are no longer a line length limit -- 100 is, IIRC.

 I don't think anything has changed here:

"The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns.

"Statements longer than 80 columns should be broken into sensible chunks,
unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does
not hide information."

-- from Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, "Breaking long lines and 
strings".

 And if it were to change anytime, then I think it would make sense for 
such a new rule to apply to new files only.  I would be strongly against 
it anyway, as the human's capability to parse lines has not changed when 
it comes to the quantity of characters easily processed at once: the angle 
spanned by eyes is hardwired.  For this reason the GNU toolchain projects 
keep the limit even lower, at 74 columns (after extensive discussions).

  Maciej

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-10 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-08 21:33 [PATCH v2 1/2] MIPS: cpu-probe: move fpu probing/handling into its own file Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-10-08 21:33 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] MIPS: cpu-probe: introduce exclusive R3k CPU probe Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-10-12 10:30   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-10-10  0:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] MIPS: cpu-probe: move fpu probing/handling into its own file Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-10-10  8:56   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2020-10-10 12:11     ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2020-10-12 11:17       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2020-10-12 10:29   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-10-12 10:30 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer

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