Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for quoted strings broken across lines

Joe Perches
2012-03-21T01:24:20Z

On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 14:06 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> checkpatch already makes an exception to the 80-column rule for quoted
> strings, and Documentation/CodingStyle recommends not splitting quoted
> strings across lines, because it breaks the ability to grep for the
> string. Rather than just permitting this, actively warn about quoted
> strings split across lines.

Hi Josh.

I don't recall seeing your patch before, but I submitted
a similar one that I believe Andrew has in his tree.