Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 00/12] drop unneeded newline

Julia Lawall
2018-01-02T13:55:36Z

On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Bob Peterson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> | Drop newline at the end of a message string when the printing function adds
> | a newline.
>
> Hi Julia,
>
> NACK.
>
> As much as it's a pain when searching the source code for output strings,
> this patch set goes against the accepted Linux coding style document. See:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings

I don't think that's the case:

"However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages,
because that breaks the ability to grep for them."

julia

>
> Regards,
>
> Bob Peterson
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