On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:39:17PM -0500, Greg Donald wrote: > The WARNING "line over 80 characters" currently accounts for 216K of > the total violations. IMHO checkpatch should just stop complaining > about the 80 char limit since that's the main offender causing new > kernel developers to inadvertently lessen readability with their first > patch. If the 80 char warning should be mostly ignored why have it.. > it's pointless. Increase it to a 21st century value or kill it. > > It seems like you assuming the limit is based on terminal size? There is some research in typography that suggests that it is easier to read text that is not on long lines. Newspapers have a large sheet of paper but they use short columns. My display is frequently greater than 80 col. I see this as an opertunity to have two xterms next to each other, not to have lines that are longer. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
