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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
To: "Leonid V. Fedorenchik" <leonidsbox@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	gregkh@suse.de, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Palash.Bandyopadhyay@conexant.com,
	ruslan@rpisarev.org.ua, Revent82@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: cx25821: fix coding style issues
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:42:24 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E37E2A0.9090109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110802171856.044cd78d@inspire>

Em 02-08-2011 06:18, Leonid V. Fedorenchik escreveu:
> Thanks for the review. I sent v2. I have a question, however...
> 
> On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:14:22 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 17:33 +0800, Leonid V. Fedorenchik wrote:
>>> Fix too long lines in cx25821-audio.h and cx25821-core.c
>> []
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-core.c b/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-core.c
>> []
>>> @@ -972,8 +972,8 @@ static int cx25821_dev_setup(struct cx25821_dev *dev)
>>>  	dev->lmmio = ioremap(dev->base_io_addr, pci_resource_len(dev->pci, 0));
>>>  
>>>  	if (!dev->lmmio) {
>>> -		CX25821_ERR
>>> -		    ("ioremap failed, maybe increasing __VMALLOC_RESERVE in page.h\n");
>>> +		CX25821_ERR("ioremap failed, maybe increasing __VMALLOC_RESERVE"
>>> +								" in page.h\n");
>>
>> Please do not split formats.
> 
> What is the reason to not split formats?
> I can see that in Documentation/CodingStyle in Chapter 2 it is OK to split
> formats if it is not making readability worse.
> So, is it for the sake of readability or is it new coding style rule for the
> kernel that is not in documentation yet or something else or am I misunderstood
> something?

Breaking long printk lines break things like:
	git grep "__VMALLOC_RESERVE in page.h"


Cheers,
Mauro

      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-02 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-01  9:33 [PATCH] Staging: cx25821: fix coding style issues Leonid V. Fedorenchik
2011-08-01 16:14 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-02  9:18   ` Leonid V. Fedorenchik
2011-08-02 11:42     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]

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