Re: Ideas on column length in kernel "problem"?

Many free (and not-free) mail clients wordwrap. Hushmail wraps at
68 (verified), Yahoo has options to wrap at a max of 99, and Gmail
was somewhere around 85-90 as I recall. Not sure on other free /
inexpensive clients.
It happens so often that people send mangled patches that it might be useful
to create a wiki page or something with the most common email clients and a
sample configuration that prevents them from mangling patches. Maybe somebody
feels like doing so in his / her spare time.

However, several code modules have code lines with column lengths
well over 80 (the worst I have seen was 211). This prevents people
with "minimal function" email clients (I'm being generous) from
making changes in the area of these long code lines, or from even
submitting fixes for the line length problem in modules themselves.
I think this is also a matter of conding style. Documentation/CodingStyle
says:

"The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a hard limit."

So actually there shouldn't be any line longer than that. Perhaps it would be
nice to create a patches that shorten the lines and to send them to the
kernel-janitors ml.

<snip>
Note -- I am well aware that us 'poor users' could just 'get a real
email service', and if anyone knows of a free/inexpensive mail
client that will be able to handle the wordwrap requirements for
the current state of the linux tree please advise.
see above.

Cheers,
Andi
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