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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:22:49 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] n2rng: Combine substrings for two messages in n2rng_probe()
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To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 19:36 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:11:35AM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:50:04 +0200
> > 
> > The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.
> > 
> > WARNING: quoted string split across lines
> > 
> > Thus fix the affected source code places.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> This patch doesn't seem to add any value so I'm not taking it.

Your choice.

The general reason to merge strings is in CodingStyle

    2) Breaking long lines and strings
    []
    never break user-visible strings such as
    printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them.