* Re: + add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch added to -mm tree [not found] <200601120105.k0C15QdV021028@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> @ 2006-01-12 1:15 ` David Woodhouse 2006-01-12 1:21 ` Andrew Morton 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: David Woodhouse @ 2006-01-12 1:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:05 -0800, akpm@osdl.org wrote: > - memcpy(¤t->saved_sigmask, &sigsaved, sizeof(sigsaved)); > + memcpy(¤t->saved_sigmask, &sigsaved, > + sizeof(sigsaved)); I often use an editor in an 80x25 terminal to edit code, and I object to this kind of patch because it make the code _harder_ to read on such a terminal. In 99.9% of cases, you don't _care_ about double-checking precisely what the third argument to that memcpy is. You glance at the line of code and it's obvious what's happening. It's _better_ if it's off the right-hand side of the screen rather than being moved down to take up a line all of its own. You just wasted one more of my precious 25 lines. The same goes for printks, where I've seen people actually break up strings and move them onto multiple lines. In the common case, we just don't _care_ -- what fits onto the first 80 columns is _enough_. Please don't make this kind of change. -- dwmw2 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: + add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch added to -mm tree 2006-01-12 1:15 ` + add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch added to -mm tree David Woodhouse @ 2006-01-12 1:21 ` Andrew Morton 2006-01-12 1:23 ` David Woodhouse 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Andrew Morton @ 2006-01-12 1:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Woodhouse; +Cc: linux-kernel David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > > It's _better_ if it's off the right-hand > side of the screen umm, not all editors do that. Some wrap the text, and it looks like crap. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: + add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch added to -mm tree 2006-01-12 1:21 ` Andrew Morton @ 2006-01-12 1:23 ` David Woodhouse 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: David Woodhouse @ 2006-01-12 1:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-kernel On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:21 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > umm, not all editors do that. Some wrap the text, and it looks like > crap. So we go for equal opportunities by making it look like crap for everyone? -- dwmw2 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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