Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 04/10] drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c: Fix continuation line formats

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Hi Joe,

On Mon,  1 Feb 2010 23:22:10 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> String constants that are continued on subsequent lines with \
> are not good.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c b/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c
> index d47b4c9..e6078c9 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c
> @@ -948,8 +948,7 @@ static int __devinit vt8231_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
>  
>  	address = val & ~(VT8231_EXTENT - 1);
>  	if (address == 0) {
> -		dev_err(&dev->dev, "base address not set -\
> -				 upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr\n");
> +		dev_err(&dev->dev, "base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr\n");
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	}
>  

Good catch, and thanks for the fix. But now we have an overlong line,
which checkpatch will complain about. So I would prefer if you'd fix
the problem by replacing the \ by a pair of ".

-- 
Jean Delvare