linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 2/2] rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU's source code.

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Message-ID: <1337293951.29587.5.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
Date:	Fri, 18 May 2012 00:32:31 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, josh@...htriplett.org,
	niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, darren@...art.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	patches@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 2/2] rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU's
 source code.

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 00:20 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 15:12 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Although the C language allows you to break strings across lines, doing
> > this makes it hard for people to find the Linux kernel code corresponding
> > to a given console message.  This commit therefore fixes broken strings
> > throughout RCU's source code. 
> 
> While I'm not a strict 80 chars zealot, I do find exceedingly long lines
> utterly annoying, editors either wrap them in the most hideous way or
> you don't see them.
> 
> I'm not going make a big fuss, but I don't think such patches are an
> improvement.

Would it be feasible to teach "git grep" to treat strings broken across
lines as one string?

Related wishes: teach "git grep" to only show hits in strings, or to
only show hits in comments, or to only show hits in code (ie, not
strings or comments).


Paul Bolle

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