Re: - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patch removed from -mm tree

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On Thu, Jan 19 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 17:17 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Documentation/CodingStyle says:
> > 
> > The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit.
> 
> Its so hard nobody follows it because in many places the results as Dave
> correctly points out are just stupid.
> 
> Linux 2.6.16-rc1
> 	Number of files matching *.[c|h]	: 15732
> 	Number with lines exceeding 80 columns	: 6931
> 	As a percentage				: 44%
> 
> Fix the CodingStyle document instead

89% of all statistics are bogus, right? In those files, how many lines
are correctly wrapped even if some are > 80 chars?

I think the CodingStyle suggestion of 80 chars is just fine. I try to
stay within that, and I mostly succeed. The occasional over-the-line is
far better than advocation >> 80 chars per line imho.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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