Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

11/13/2009 12:17 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> 11/12/2009 07:36 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> Breaking strings mid-sentence is something we try not to do. (If you 
>>> know about places that do it 'quite often' then those places need fixing 
>>> too.)
>>
>> Oh... I do that all the time and I see a lot of them around too.
> 
> I hate them. I do greps for error messages, and it's annoying as hell if 
> it's hard to find.
> 
> 'checkpatch' is the major reason for them, but I think we've fixed 
> checkpath long ago to not warn about long lines if they are due to a long 
> string.
> 
> Strings should basically be broken up only at '\n' characters, so
> 
> 	printk("This is a made-up example.\n"
> 		"Ok like this\n");
> 
> is fine, because you can expect to grep for "made-up example", but not 
> over the newline.

If the consensus is to allow long string literals to overrun 80 column
limit, I have no objection.  It makes code slightly more difficult to
read for some people but well we can't make everyone happy.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun