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Message-ID: <1332304558.29403.17.camel@joe2Laptop>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:35:58 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"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 21:28 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I don't recall seeing your patch before, but I submitted
> > a similar one that I believe Andrew has in his tree.
> You reviewed my patch at the time and provided feedback, and I'd
> produced a revised version based on that feedback.

duh.

I heard short term memory fades as you get age,
but I might not remember that in awhile.

> The heuristics in the patch I submitted almost completely eliminate
> false positives, which makes my patch suitable for use without --strict.

Yup, this patch is better than the one I submitted.

One improvement might be to check for a line continuation \
on $prevline and still produce a warning in that case.

cheers, Joe

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