netdev - Re: [PATCH] skbuff: create skb_panic() to let caller specify panic

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Date:	Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:52:31 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jean Sacren <sakiwit@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skbuff: create skb_panic() to let caller specify panic

On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 23:40 -0700, Jean Sacren wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:02:53 -0800
> >
> > On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 22:56 -0700, Jean Sacren wrote:
> > > From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> > > > Don't split the format across multiple lines please.
> > []
> > > Honestly I didn't want to split the whole string, but I was in the
> > > dilemma of accommodating 80-column convention. I'm ready to respin if
> > > the consensus favors one long string. But how long is too long?
> > 
> > Documentation/CodingStyle
> > 
> > 		Chapter 2: Breaking long lines and strings
> > ...
> > never break user-visible strings such as printk messages,
> > because that breaks the ability to grep for them
> 
> I appreciate you for sharing this document with me, but this scenario is
> unique, as it concerns panic. Under this circumstance, are we able to
> grep?

On another machine?  In a vm?  I don't see why not.
Does it matter?  Probably not.

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