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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Use octal not symbolic permissions
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:05:14 -0700
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Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>, Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>, Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org

On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 15:36 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> extending some of these lines to be >80 characters also improves 
> the readability imo.

Right.

I have no personal objection to very occasionally using
line lengths < ~100 chars instead of 80.

AFAIK: neither does Linus.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/15/749

Beyond that, I believe it's too much left-right eyeball
movement for quick and easy reading comprehension.