Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 10:15:18 EST
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, AmÃrico Wang wrote:
>
> I like this patch, this is actually what I wanted to do.
I have nothing against a switch, but it had better default to off.
The whole 80-char limit is insane. It results in insane "fixes". Just
about every time somebody "improves" a patch due to the warning, the
result is worse than the original patch.
Linus
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