linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: janitor work in bugs.c

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 21:44:27 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@...galware.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: janitor work in bugs.c

Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 23:09 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> We had a discussion recently that wrapping printk format strings
>> is a bad idea. Don't do it please.
> 
> I don't know that there was a resolution either.
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/22/143
> 
> If there was one, there's a lot of possible changes.
> 
> $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "printk.*\"\s*$\s*\"" * | wc -l
> 13276
> 
> divide by 2, there are more than 6K split source line printks
> 

Perhaps a better idea would be to write a script to grep for strings.

	-hpa
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