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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	gustavo@padovan.org, johan.hedberg@gmail.com,
	linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add --strict test for strings split across multiple lines
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:54:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330667673.1939.22.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330666534.1939.19.camel@joe2Laptop>

Strings split across multiple lines are commonly used
as formats.  These uncoalesced formats are hard to grep
and are relatively error prone.

Suggest coalescing split strings when using --strict.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 581a14c..5d0b46c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1860,6 +1860,12 @@ sub process {
 			    "Don't begin block comments with only a /* line, use /* comment...\n" . $hereprev);
 		}
 
+		if ($prevline =~ /^\+.*"[ \t]*$/ &&
+		    $line =~ /^\+[ \t]*"/) {
+			CHK("COALESCE_STRING",
+			    "Coalesced strings are easier to grep and less error prone\n" . $hereprev);
+		}
+
 # check for spaces at the beginning of a line.
 # Exceptions:
 #  1) within comments
-- 
1.7.8.111.gad25c.dirty

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-02  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-02  2:55 pull request: bluetooth-next 2012-03-01 Gustavo Padovan
2012-03-02  3:16 ` David Miller
2012-03-02  3:23   ` David Miller
2012-03-02  3:26     ` David Miller
2012-03-02  4:13       ` Joe Perches
2012-03-02  5:35         ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Add --strict tests for braces, comments and casts Joe Perches
2012-03-02  5:54           ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-03-02 16:37       ` pull request: bluetooth-next 2012-03-01 Gustavo Padovan
2012-03-02 21:15         ` David Miller
2012-03-03 16:46           ` Gustavo Padovan
2012-03-03 19:46             ` David Miller
2012-03-03 19:47             ` David Miller
2012-03-03 20:04               ` Joe Perches
2012-03-03 20:06                 ` David Miller

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