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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:59:54PM +1300, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 00:44 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Oh crap.  The damn thing wraps into column _1_ and gets tangled up with
> > ifdef statements, function definitions and other things which _should_ go
> > in column one.
> 
> It does that only for people with editors which wrap stuff like that
> into column 1. Those people (which includes myself on some occasions)
> are _used_ to seeing stuff like that in column 1, so it's natural. And
> it's text which is of little importance; not something which has much
> relevance to the code flow.
>...

Patches with lines > 80 are not easily readable in 80 column xterms no 
matter whether the lines are wrapped or not.

> dwmw2

cu
Adrian

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