Re: [PATCH] ptrace: checkpatch fixes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> 
> Isnt checkpatch just following what is written down in the Documentation 
> folder? Maybe adopting the following part of CodingStyle and add more 
> examples for good and bad would give the checkpatch authors a better 
> idea about your intent.

The thing is, it's true that it's good if things fit in 80 columns.

But _splitting_ lines isn't the answer. Making code simpler is, but 
somehow the 80-column warning never causes that to happen - instead people 
just split.

And yes, I guess we should remove the language saying so. It's not from 
my original coding stule, it was added later by others, and came through 
Andrew (commit 560362dafe4de60db70f2c298a53f4613453a78b: "[PATCH] 
Codingstyle update" in the historical Linux archive).

			Linus
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