On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 14:13 -0200, Jorgyano Bruno wrote: > (an html formatted reply) html emails are rejected by kernel.org lists, please use text-only. > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's OK to have the line with the format exceed 80 chars. > What about the 80-columns rule? > is the strings an exception to the rule? > when we should not to break the strings over 80 columns? Formats should be unbroken where possible. 80 column wrapping should be ignored for format strings. An exception might be a multi-line format (with multiple newlines) printk(KERN_LEVEL "long line 1\n" "long line 2\n"); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html