Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 2/2] rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU's source code.

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 08:33:08AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 15:12 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> Well, but if it's exceedingly long in the editor then it's 
> probably exceedingly long in the syslog as well and need fixing, 
> right?
> 
> Or it's printed inside some exceedingly deep nested block of 
> code, which too could use improvement, right?

The longest source-code line produced by this patch is 104 characters.

I am hoping that this is not considered excessively long!

							Thanx, Paul