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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:55:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120203085516.GF3008@leaf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328247515.18641.84.camel@joe2Laptop>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:38:35PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 21:27 -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.
> []
> > +			WARN("SPLIT_STRING",
> > +			     "quoted string split across lines\n" . $herecurr);
> 
> I think the output would be better as:
> 
> 			WARN("SPLIT_STRING",
> 			     "quoted string split across lines\n" . $hereprev);

Awesome; I'd thought that it would look better to show the previous
line, but I didn't know about $hereprev.  PATCHv3 momentarily.

- Josh Triplett

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-03  8:55 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 [this message]
2012-02-03  6:34 ` Josh Triplett
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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