Re: - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch removed from -mm tree

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 00:44 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Oh crap.  The damn thing wraps into column _1_ and gets tangled up with
> ifdef statements, function definitions and other things which _should_ go
> in column one.

It does that only for people with editors which wrap stuff like that
into column 1. Those people (which includes myself on some occasions)
are _used_ to seeing stuff like that in column 1, so it's natural. And
it's text which is of little importance; not something which has much
relevance to the code flow.

> It .looks.  .like.  .crap.  to many other people, and saying random stupid
> wrong things doesn't alter that very simple fact.

No, it looks like crap for _some_ people. And making it look like crap
for _everyone_, which is what your patch does, doesn't alter that fact
either.

It's a simple memcpy(dest, src, len), and the length is almost entirely
superfluous -- we could almost get away with '*dest = *src' here. It
lives on a single line and is messy any other way, and you want to muck
about with it just because there are some poor sods out there for whom
it would look _slightly_ better if you make it look like crap for the
rest of us.

I'm not advocating a blanket removal of the 80-character limit;
important things should always be within 80 columns. But this is fluff;
leave it where it is, please.

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dwmw2