[U-Boot] Question about Coding-Style

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:07:32 -0500, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 04:02:56PM +0100, Stefano Babic wrote:
> > Hi Hannes,
> > 
> > On 04/02/2014 15:50, Hannes Petermaier wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Another thing is linewrapping of output strings, to obey to the rules i
> > > have to format the string as following:
> > > 
> > > if (i2c_probe(TPS65217_CHIP_PM)) {
> > > 	printf("PMIC chip (0x%02x) not present! skipping" \
> > > 		"further configuration.\n", TPS65217_CHIP_PM);
> > > 	return;
> > > }
> > > 
> > > But this makes it impossible to grep the code in case of an error.
> > 
> > You must combine a more complicate grep, maybe with the -A (after
> > context) option or using a regexp. However, this is not a reason to
> > break the rule.
> 
> Strings are the reason to break the rule and we have checkpatch patched
> (mostly?) to not complain.  It's even true in the kernel.

Hmm... Last time I checked,

	"abc"
	"def"

Is a valid C string, and does not require a backslash. Do I miss
something?

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.