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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Increase the line length limit from
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On 02/03/2012 01:27 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>> The overwhelming majority of kernel developers have stopped
>> using 80 col terminals years ago.

There was more interesting text there.  ;)

> Quite frankly, I think we should still keep it at 80 columns.
> 
...

> 
> So no, 100-char columns are not ok.

Thank you.

-- 
~Randy
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