linux-kernel - Re: [patch v2 2/3] staging: speakup: check and convert dev name or ser to dev

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Message-ID: <1497832670.8495.33.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 18 Jun 2017 17:37:50 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@...il.com>,
        Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>,
        Kirk Reiser <kirk@...sers.ca>, speakup@...ux-speakup.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2 2/3] staging: speakup: check and convert dev name or
 ser to dev_t

On Sun, 2017-06-18 at 22:54 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 04:35:21PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > +       if (ser < 0 || ser > (255 - 64)) {
> > > > +                pr_err("speakup: Invalid ser param. \
> > > > +                               Must be between 0 and 191 inclusive.\n");
> > > 
> > > Just make it one line.
> > 
> > Is it okay if it becomes larger than 80 chars?
> 
> Yes. Even checkpatch will not complain in this case.

And even if it didn't, as written it's a defect
because line continuations don't act like
string concatenations.  You've added a space
before the line continuation \ and a bunch of
whitespace before the word Must