On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 09:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote: [] > In particular the random line breaks, apparently to pacify checkpatch, were > horribly widespread. I just made the lines longer - that's still more readable > than the multi-line horror that was there before. [] > arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c | 500 >++++++++++++++++++------------------- [] > - pr_info("UV: OEM IDs %s/%s, System/HUB Types %d/%d, uv_apic %d\n", > - oem_id, oem_table_id, uv_system_type, > - uv_min_hub_revision_id, uv_apic); > + pr_info("UV: OEM IDs %s/%s, System/HUB Types %d/%d, uv_apic %d\n", > oem_id, oem_table_id, uv_system_type, uv_min_hub_revision_id, uv_apic);
140+ chars on a single line. Is this really better or easier to read? Long lines make it harder to humans to verify format and arguments used in printf type calls.

