Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are 
>> anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines
>>     
>
> Perhaps we should increase line length limit, 132 should be fine.
> Especially useful with long printk() lines and long arithmetic
> expressions.
>   


Yes; or even longer.  80 characters might have made sense on a screen
when the alternative was 80 characters on a punched card, but on a
modern computer it's very restrictive.  That's especially true with the
deep indents that you quickly get in C.  Even short lines often need to
be split when you put a few tabs in front of them, and that makes
comprehension that bit harder, not to mention looks ugly.
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