From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932578AbWASGge (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:36:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932580AbWASGge (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:36:34 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:9144 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932578AbWASGgd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:36:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:36:29 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20060118.223629.100108404.davem@davemloft.net> To: sfr@canb.auug.org.au Cc: 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 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20060119171708.7f856b42.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> References: <200601190052.k0J0qmKC009977@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1137648119.30084.94.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060119171708.7f856b42.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Rothwell Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:17:08 +1100 > Documentation/CodingStyle says: > > The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit. > > Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks. > Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and are placed > substantially to the right. The same applies to function headers with a long > argument list. Long strings are as well broken into shorter strings. I wish there were an exception for function prototypes and definitions. Why? So grep actually works. Hmmm, what args does function X take? Let's try this: bash$ git grep X Oops, the args went past 80 columns and was split up, so I only get the first few in the grep output.