[David Woodhouse - Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:37:24PM +0000]
| 
| On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:37 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
| > * David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > 
| > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
| > > > not to make a big issue out of this, but when was the last time you 
| > > > tried to grep this way:
| > > > 
| > > >   grep -E "audit_rate_limit=[0-9]+ audit_backlog" */*.c
| > > 
| > > Not precisely that, but I've certainly had greps fail because people 
| > > have split up strings to meet the stupid 80-character "limit".
| > 
| > yes - but if you read my whole reply you'll see that i qualified it:
| > 
| > >> That's pretty much the only grep pattern that would break. People 
| > >> usually grep on the constant portion of the string, so breaking up a 
| > >>                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| > >> line along a variable boundary is perfectly okay.
| 
| Yes, you did. But you failed to provide any good reason for actually
| changing it, either. Leave it as it was.
| 
| -- 
| dwmw2
| 

so what i would do now? i could post updated patch *without* that
splitted line, should I?

                - Cyrill -
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