From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:14:37 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912170713390.17868@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2375c9f90912170131g3144ca2eydfa067c85f6ced44@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Américo Wang wrote:
>
> I like this patch, this is actually what I wanted to do.
I have nothing against a switch, but it had better default to off.
The whole 80-char limit is insane. It results in insane "fixes". Just
about every time somebody "improves" a patch due to the warning, the
result is worse than the original patch.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-17 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-15 21:57 Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-15 22:26 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 9:31 ` Américo Wang
2009-12-17 15:14 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-12-17 15:18 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 15:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 16:08 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-17 16:30 ` Janakiram Sistla
2009-12-17 18:05 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-18 13:31 ` Pádraig Brady
2009-12-18 16:32 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 22:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 13:04 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-12-18 13:55 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-18 14:39 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-27 17:15 ` Jon Smirl
2009-12-21 6:32 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-22 15:10 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-12-16 10:58 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-16 19:59 ` Alex Chiang
2009-12-17 6:12 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-17 8:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-17 23:29 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-17 23:35 ` Al Viro
2009-12-18 4:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-12-18 5:12 ` [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: Change long line warning to 105 chars Joe Perches
2009-12-18 5:57 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-18 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 17:54 ` Joe Perches
2009-12-18 18:41 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-18 14:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 15:12 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2009-12-18 16:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-12-18 17:12 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 22:36 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 17:31 ` Joe Perches
2009-12-18 14:28 ` [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl Krzysztof Halasa
2009-12-18 14:52 ` kevin granade
2009-12-18 16:43 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 17:09 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-18 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 21:15 ` kevin granade
2009-12-18 15:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-12-17 22:37 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-12-17 23:12 ` Paul Mundt
2009-12-17 23:33 ` Mikulas Patocka
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