On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 09:57 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > > It is _not_ diehard, at least not according to Linus. He has posted a > > couple of messages expressing his opinion that overall readability is > > more important than sticking rigidly to 80 columns. > > My experience has been that anyone sending over 80 columns is sure to > get slammed, just like with this document patch. So when I say it's die > hard that's what I mean. Plus we have the checkpatch clean phenomenon. > So Linus may not care but everyone else on this list does seem to care.. Well, I wouldn't have said anything if you ran over by only a few characters. But your line was 97 characters long! Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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