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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for quoted strings broken across lines
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:35:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1332304558.29403.17.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120321042805.GB1979@leaf>

On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 21:28 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I don't recall seeing your patch before, but I submitted
> > a similar one that I believe Andrew has in his tree.
> You reviewed my patch at the time and provided feedback, and I'd
> produced a revised version based on that feedback.

duh.

I heard short term memory fades as you get age,
but I might not remember that in awhile.

> The heuristics in the patch I submitted almost completely eliminate
> false positives, which makes my patch suitable for use without --strict.

Yup, this patch is better than the one I submitted.

One improvement might be to check for a line continuation \
on $prevline and still produce a warning in that case.

cheers, Joe


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-21  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-20 21:06 [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for quoted strings broken across lines Josh Triplett
2012-03-21  1:24 ` Joe Perches
2012-03-21  4:28   ` Josh Triplett
2012-03-21  4:35     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-03-21  6:05       ` Josh Triplett
2012-03-21 12:11         ` Joe Perches
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-03  5:27 Josh Triplett
2012-02-03  5:38 ` Joe Perches
2012-02-03  8:55   ` Josh Triplett
2012-02-03  6:34 ` Josh Triplett
2012-02-02 20:06 Josh Triplett
2012-02-02 20:22 ` Nick Bowler
2012-02-02 21:16   ` Josh Triplett
2012-02-02 22:08     ` Nick Bowler
2012-02-03  1:31       ` Josh Triplett
2012-02-02 21:29   ` Jesper Juhl
2012-02-02 21:34     ` Joe Perches
2012-02-02 22:02       ` Josh Triplett
2012-02-02 20:36 ` Joe Perches
2012-02-02 21:28   ` Josh Triplett
2012-02-02 21:32     ` Joe Perches
2012-02-02 22:36       ` Josh Triplett

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