linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6

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Message-ID: <20091112103639.GB24684@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:36:39 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6

* Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:

> Hmmm... The thing is that the nesting isn't that deep there and 
> breaking string in the middle is something we do quite often.  What 
> checkpatch warning did you see?

( i did not run checkpatch over your commit - i just assumed that the 
  ugliness was a checkpatch artifact. )

Breaking strings mid-sentence is something we try not to do. (If you 
know about places that do it 'quite often' then those places need fixing 
too.)

The biggest problem with it s that it breaks git grep. If someone sees 
this message in the log:

  PERCPU: allocation failed, size=1024 align=32, failed to extend area map of reserved chunk

and types the obvious:

  git grep 'failed to extend area map of reserved chunk'

the git-grep comes up empty because the string was needlessly broken in 
mid-sentence. Which is a confusing result and which causes people to 
waste time trying to figure out where the message came from.

The other messages in this function are fine btw, for example:

  git grep 'failed to populate'

will come up with the right place.

( There are also other reasons why we dont break strings mid-sentence - 
  it's also less readable to have it on two lines. )

	Ingo
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