Re: [tip:x86/doc] x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp

From: Alan Stern
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 10:55:35 EST


On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Daniel Walker wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 09:57 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>
> > It is _not_ diehard, at least not according to Linus. He has posted a
> > couple of messages expressing his opinion that overall readability is
> > more important than sticking rigidly to 80 columns.
>
> My experience has been that anyone sending over 80 columns is sure to
> get slammed, just like with this document patch. So when I say it's die
> hard that's what I mean. Plus we have the checkpatch clean phenomenon.
> So Linus may not care but everyone else on this list does seem to care..

Well, I wouldn't have said anything if you ran over by only a few
characters. But your line was 97 characters long!

Alan Stern


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