[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday 17 December 2009 04:14:37 pm Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Américo Wang wrote:
> > 
> > I like this patch, this is actually what I wanted to do.
> 
> I have nothing against a switch, but it had better default to off.
> 
> The whole 80-char limit is insane. It results in insane "fixes". Just 
> about every time somebody "improves" a patch due to the warning, the 
> result is worse than the original patch.

Examples? :)

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz