Re: - add-pselect-ppoll-system-call-implementation-tidy.patchremoved from -mm tree

[David S. Miller]

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:17:08 +1100

> Documentation/CodingStyle says:
> 
> The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit.
> 
> Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks.
> Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and are placed
> substantially to the right. The same applies to function headers with a long
> argument list. Long strings are as well broken into shorter strings.

I wish there were an exception for function prototypes and definitions.
Why?  So grep actually works.

Hmmm, what args does function X take?  Let's try this:

bash$ git grep X

Oops, the args went past 80 columns and was split up, so I only
get the first few in the grep output.
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