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

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 04:57:23 EST


On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 17:17 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Documentation/CodingStyle says:
>
> The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit.

Its so hard nobody follows it because in many places the results as Dave
correctly points out are just stupid.

Linux 2.6.16-rc1
Number of files matching *.[c|h] : 15732
Number with lines exceeding 80 columns : 6931
As a percentage : 44%

Fix the CodingStyle document instead

Alan



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