Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist

[H. Peter Anvin]

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> I personally buy the argument that 80 cols helps remind people that they've 
>> used too many indentation depths and should redesign their code.
>> I think it's 
>> a good thing to stick to where possible, even if just from a design 
>> perspective.
> 
> How many is too many? A function with 2 "if" means 3 tabs = 24 characters
> for just indentation. Add a printk(KERN_DEBUG "\n"); and you can print
> ca. 30 characters without having to break the string. This is crazy.
> 

My big concern with the 80-column rule is that it discourages commenting.

	-hpa
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