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

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 17:17:35 EST


Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The intel-rng printed a nice well formatted message when the port was
> disabled. Someone then came along and blindly trashed it by screwing up a
> trim down to 80 columns.

Perhaps we should drop that 80-column style and use some 120+?
X or no X, almost all people now have more lines and columns on their
displays than MDA 20 years ago.

132 to match text VGA perhaps?
80 can be left for the actual _output_, I mean number of chars printed
by kernel code.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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