From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for quoted strings broken across lines
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:34:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120203063435.GA15436@leaf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120203052727.GA15035@leaf>
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:27:27PM -0800, 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.
[...]
> v2: Add the "after open parenthesis" heuristic which almost completely
> eliminates non-user-visible strings, leaving only 12 in the entire
> kernel, versus thousands of correct matches. Change "breaks
> greppability" to "breaks the ability to grep for the string".
Sorry, forgot to change "PATCH" to "PATCHv2" in the subject.
- Josh Triplett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-03 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-03 5:27 [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for quoted strings broken across lines Josh Triplett
2012-02-03 5:38 ` Joe Perches
2012-02-03 8:55 ` Josh Triplett
2012-02-03 6:34 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
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2012-03-20 21:06 Josh Triplett
2012-03-21 1:24 ` Joe Perches
2012-03-21 4:28 ` Josh Triplett
2012-03-21 4:35 ` Joe Perches
2012-03-21 6:05 ` Josh Triplett
2012-03-21 12:11 ` Joe Perches
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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