linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm/slab.c: Fix continuation line formats

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Date:	Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:13:59 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm/slab.c: Fix continuation line formats

On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 14:08 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 12:02 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> > index 7451bda..9964619 100644
> > --- a/mm/slab.c
> > +++ b/mm/slab.c
> > @@ -4228,8 +4228,8 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
> >  		unsigned long node_frees = cachep->node_frees;
> >  		unsigned long overflows = cachep->node_overflow;
> >  
> > -		seq_printf(m, " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu \
> > -				%4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu", allocs, high, grown,
> > +		seq_printf(m, " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu 				%4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu",
> > +				allocs, high, grown,
> 
> Yuck. The right way to do this is by mergeable adjacent strings, eg:
> 
> printk("part 1..."
>        " part 2...", ...);

Yuck indeed.

I think format strings shouldn't be split across multiple lines and
the right thing to do is to use a single space instead of the tabs.



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