From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967821Ab2EQWUi (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 18:20:38 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:46684 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967208Ab2EQWUg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 18:20:36 -0400 Message-ID: <1337293209.4281.111.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 2/2] rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU's source code. From: Peter Zijlstra To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, patches@linaro.org Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 00:20:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1337292765-12221-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20120517221217.GA12196@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1337292765-12221-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1337292765-12221-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 15:12 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" > > Although the C language allows you to break strings across lines, doing > this makes it hard for people to find the Linux kernel code corresponding > to a given console message. This commit therefore fixes broken strings > throughout RCU's source code. While I'm not a strict 80 chars zealot, I do find exceedingly long lines utterly annoying, editors either wrap them in the most hideous way or you don't see them. I'm not going make a big fuss, but I don't think such patches are an improvement.