Re: [PATCH] Change a WARN message in checkpatch

[Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>]

On Feb. 24, 2008, 19:29 -0800, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:14:13PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>  How about:
>>>  -                               WARN("no space between function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
>>>  +                               WARN("there should be no space between function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
>> I originally suggested:
>> +                               WARN("don't put a space between
>> function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
>> but I really prefer your version.
>>
>>>  The original phrasing can be interpreted like "there is no space between ..." and the correct
>>>  interpretation should be "there should be no space between ..."
>> Indeed.
> 
> As we want the messages to be as short as possible, I am leaning towards
> standardising on:
> 
> 	spaces prohibited <where>
> 	spaces required <where>

Sounds good to me.

Benny

> 
> -apw