checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit
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From: Joe Perches on 29 Jan 2010 13:50 On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 00:19 -0500, tytso(a)mit.edu wrote: > Linus has already agreed that the 80 character limit is stupid. Let's > just nuke this check from checkpatch.pl and move on. Andy, can you update checkpatch please? I proposed this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/18/3 If you're too busy, I can collect the several additional patches that have been suggested and push them to you or to Andrew Morton. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Simon Farnsworth on 1 Feb 2010 07:00
Alexander Clouter wrote: > Andi Kleen <andi(a)firstfloor.org> wrote: >>> The time of 80 characters punch card and terminals are over, so i would >>> be a good thing to set the line length limit to 120. Every display today >>> should be able handle this. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> >> Full Ack! >> > NACK Attack! > > There is a reason Knuth only put so many words on a line with TeX. > If you're going to cite Knuth as a reason for the 80 character per line limit, you should understand the difference between ribbon length and line length. While there are good reasons to constrain the number of characters in a ribbon, and to prohibit too much of a shift in indentation between two neighbouring lines, there's no particularly strong readability reason to limit a line to 80 characters. Thus, assuming that maintainers read the patches they're sent, and apply a bit of common sense (insisting on sensibly sized ribbons, and getting grouchy about deep indentation), an 80 character line length limit isn't needed. -- Simon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |