Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl

[Jiri Kosina <jkosina suse cz>]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Paul Mundt wrote:

> > Example picked totally at random:
> > 
> > 	set_le_ih_k_offset(ih,
> > 			   le_ih_k_offset(ih) +
> > 			   (tb->
> > 			    lbytes <<
> > 			    (is_indirect_le_ih
> > 			     (ih) ? tb->tb_sb->
> > 			     s_blocksize_bits -
> > 			     UNFM_P_SHIFT :
> > 			     0)));
> > 
> > See how everything is nicely aligned to 80 cols?
> > 
> > 
> > Generally, don't look at this function after having a good lunch you want 
> > to keep. You have been warned.
> > 
> This isn't a valid example, as it wasn't written by a human. This is the
> result of Lindent being run blindly on the file and nothing more.
> 
> Try again.

But having hard rule imposed on everyone to stick with 80-char rule makes 
people to do exactly this kind of things (blindly running indent -l80 and 
believing that it makes the code more readable because it is 
CodingStyle-compliant(tm)).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.