waOn Mon, 2012-10-22 at 10:37 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 23:33 +0100, Ken O'Brien wrote:
> > ...
> > > -         pr_err("binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed to "
> > > +         pr_err("binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed to " \
> > >                  "map pages in userspace, no vma\n", proc->pid);
> > ...
> > Nice try, but the "right" way to do this is to coalesce formats like:
> > 
> >             pr_err("binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed to map pages in 
> > userspace, no vma\n",
> >                    proc->pid);
> 
> Surely the right way is to fix _checkpatch_ to see ["]\n\s*["] and merge the
> lines before checking them?  We shouldn't have to fix up the source in either
> of these fashions just because checkpatch is broken.

checkpatch is stupid, but it's not broken here.

Formats should be coalesced into a single line to make
grepping the source for dmesg output easier.

More likely checkpatch could be changed to bleat yet
another warning like

"line continuation used outside macro definition"

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