Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Increase the line length limit from 80 to 100 colums

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Feb 03 2012 - 12:57:21 EST


> So lets increase the limit to 100 cols - this is a nice round
> limit, and it also happens to match with most developer xterm
> sizes. Code that goes over 100 cols for no good reasons will be
> arguably something worth fixing. (100 cols is also arguably
> closer to various brain limits such as vision of field and
> resolution restrictions, so we'll likely not have to increase
> this limit for a couple of million years, for all retro human
> genome users.)

I suppose the future computer to brain interfaces will just
do away with the concept of lines @)

>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Andi
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