linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for quoted strings broken across lines

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Message-ID: <1332293056.27711.12.camel@joe2Laptop>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:24:16 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Check for quoted strings broken across lines

On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 14:06 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> checkpatch already makes an exception to the 80-column rule for quoted
> strings, and Documentation/CodingStyle recommends not splitting quoted
> strings across lines, because it breaks the ability to grep for the
> string.  Rather than just permitting this, actively warn about quoted
> strings split across lines.

Hi Josh.

I don't recall seeing your patch before, but I submitted
a similar one that I believe Andrew has in his tree.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/2/24

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