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

[Pádraig Brady]

On 17/12/09 16:21, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'd be ok with changing the warning to 132 characters, which is another
> perfectly fine historical limit. Or we can split the difference, and say
> "ok, 106 characters is too much". I don't care. But 80 characters is
> causing too many idiotic changes.

I find smaller limits help when you want to do side-by-side diffs,
or `git blame` for example, but I agree there needs to be taste applied,
so as to not mangle the code.

cheers,
Pádraig.