From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:40:08 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137652808.30084.125.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060118223039.1d9dfe64.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 22:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> So the lowest common denominator wins, because they hurt more than
> anyone else if we go outside 80-cols. I use 80-col xterms precisely
> for this reason: so that the code which goes in will look OK to those
> users.
That would make some sense if it weren't for the fact that the snippet
of patch I just showed doesn't actually improve the situation for the
lowest common denominator -- it only makes it worse for the rest of us.
Put real meaningful stuff within 80 columns by all means -- but please
allow lines to be longer than that if they're just 'fluff'.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-19 6:40 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 ` 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 [this message]
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
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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