Re: [PATCH] mm: Use octal not symbolic permissions

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 15:36 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> extending some of these lines to be >80 characters also improves 
> the readability imo.

Right.

I have no personal objection to very occasionally using
line lengths < ~100 chars instead of 80.

AFAIK: neither does Linus.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/15/749

Beyond that, I believe it's too much left-right eyeball
movement for quick and easy reading comprehension.