Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist



On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:56:06PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
Thinking about it more, I wonder if Krysztof is bitching more about
the tab width of 8 characters? I know that it ticks me off,

Even if he is, _that_ is definitely not getting changed.

That was the very first item Linus wrote in Documentation/CodingStyle,
and for good reasons.

If code starts creeping way right due to indentation levels, create a
new function.

Jeff



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