> The post is about changing code style formatting rules for code that goes into the Linux kernel. Not guidelines, rules. Then it is about absolutes, the rule

> The post is about changing code style formatting rules for code that goes into the Linux kernel. Not guidelines, rules. Then it is about absolutes, the rule is absolute, but 80 width is a guide... being used as a rule. I'm surprised the first to challenge the rule is about grepability and not how detrimental it is to legibility to use this as a hard rule.