linux-ext4 - Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 00/12] drop unneeded newline

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Date:   Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:00:46 +0100 (CET)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>
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        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        esc storagedev <esc.storagedev@...rosemi.com>
Subject: Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 00/12] drop unneeded newline



On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Bob Peterson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | | Drop newline at the end of a message string when the printing function adds
> | | a newline.
> |
> | Hi Julia,
> |
> | NACK.
> |
> | As much as it's a pain when searching the source code for output strings,
> | this patch set goes against the accepted Linux coding style document. See:
> |
> | https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings
> |
> | Regards,
> |
> | Bob Peterson
> |
> |
> Hm. I guess I stand corrected. The document reads:
>
> "However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them."
>
> Still, the GFS2 and DLM code has a plethora of broken-up printk messages,
> and I don't like the thought of re-combining them all.

Actually, the point of the patch was to remove the unnecessary \n at the
end of the string, because log_print will add another one.  If you prefer
to keep the string broken up, I can resend the patch in that form, but
without the unnecessary \n.

julia