Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm/slab.c: Fix continuation line formats

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 12:02 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> String constants that are continued on subsequent lines with \
> are not good.

> The characters between seq_printf elements are tabs.
> That was probably not intentional, but isn't being changed.
> It's behind an #ifdef, so it could probably become a single space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---
>  mm/slab.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 7451bda..9964619 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -4228,8 +4228,8 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
>  		unsigned long node_frees = cachep->node_frees;
>  		unsigned long overflows = cachep->node_overflow;
>  
> -		seq_printf(m, " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu \
> -				%4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu", allocs, high, grown,
> +		seq_printf(m, " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu 				%4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu",
> +				allocs, high, grown,

Yuck. The right way to do this is by mergeable adjacent strings, eg:

printk("part 1..."
       " part 2...", ...);

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