From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759242Ab2CUBYU (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:24:20 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:41027 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755416Ab2CUBYT (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:24:19 -0400 Message-ID: <1332293056.27711.12.camel@joe2Laptop> Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for quoted strings broken across lines From: Joe Perches To: Josh Triplett Cc: Andy Whitcroft , "Paul E. McKenney" , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:24:16 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20120320210644.GA2493@leaf> References: <20120320210644.GA2493@leaf> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/2/24