On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 05:15 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > 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.
But MODULE_PARM_DESC() multi-line strings are ok, right? grep - 'MODULE_PARM_DESC.*"$' drivers shows it's in widespread use. > More likely checkpatch could be changed to bleat yet > another warning like > > "line continuation used outside macro definition" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
