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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] n2rng: Combine substrings for two messages in n2rng_probe()
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:22:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1492798969.30293.28.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170421113641.GA14100@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 19:36 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:11:35AM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:50:04 +0200
> > 
> > The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.
> > 
> > WARNING: quoted string split across lines
> > 
> > Thus fix the affected source code places.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> This patch doesn't seem to add any value so I'm not taking it.

Your choice.

The general reason to merge strings is in CodingStyle

    2) Breaking long lines and strings
    []
    never break user-visible strings such as
    printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-21 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-19  9:08 [PATCH 0/2] n2rng: Fine-tuning for n2rng_probe() SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-19  9:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] n2rng: Use devm_kcalloc() in n2rng_probe() SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-19 15:24   ` Shannon Nelson
2017-04-21 13:16   ` Herbert Xu
2017-04-19  9:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] n2rng: Combine substrings for two messages " SF Markus Elfring
2017-04-19 15:24   ` Shannon Nelson
2017-04-21 11:36   ` Herbert Xu
2017-04-21 14:53     ` David Miller
2017-04-21 18:22     ` Joe Perches [this message]

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