From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cl@linux-foundation.org,
penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, mpm@selenic.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm/slab.c: Fix continuation line formats
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:53:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002010053.45818.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264970322.25140.175.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
On Sunday 31 January 2010, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 21:32 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > If that spacing part is really needed (is it?), wouldn't it be more
> >
> > readable as:
> > > + seq_printf(m, " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu"
> > > + " "
> > > + "%4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu",
> > > + allocs, high, grown,
>
> If it's required (most likely not, but it's a seq_printf and
> some people think those should never be modified because it's
> a public interface), it should probably be explicit:
>
> " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu \t\t\t\t%4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu"
Yes, would be better. And if it is kept for compatibility it probably
deserves a comment explaining the weirdness.
Cheers,
FJP
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-31 20:02 [PATCH 00/10] treewide: Fix format strings that misuse continuations Joe Perches
2010-01-31 20:02 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm/slab.c: Fix continuation line formats Joe Perches
2010-01-31 20:08 ` Matt Mackall
2010-01-31 20:13 ` Joe Perches
2010-01-31 20:32 ` Frans Pop
2010-01-31 20:38 ` Joe Perches
2010-01-31 23:53 ` Frans Pop [this message]
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