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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:58:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137664692.8471.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060119171708.7f856b42.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 17:17 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Documentation/CodingStyle says:
> 
> The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit.

Its so hard nobody follows it because in many places the results as Dave
correctly points out are just stupid.

Linux 2.6.16-rc1
	Number of files matching *.[c|h]	: 15732
	Number with lines exceeding 80 columns	: 6931
	As a percentage				: 44%

Fix the CodingStyle document instead

Alan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-19  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200601190052.k0J0qmKC009977@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-01-19  5:21 ` - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch removed from -mm tree David Woodhouse
2006-01-19  6:17   ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-01-19  6:24     ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-19  6:30     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19  6:40       ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-19  6:36     ` David S. Miller
2006-01-19  6:47       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-01-19  7:02         ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19  7:18           ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-19  8:09           ` David S. Miller
2006-01-19 15:51       ` James Morris
2006-01-20  2:17       ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-01-19  9:58     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-01-19 15:59       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20  8:33         ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-20  8:44           ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20  8:59             ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-20 10:01               ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-23  5:25                 ` David Woodhouse
2006-01-20 23:44               ` Adrian Bunk

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