linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] kbuild: single-quote the format string of printf

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Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:00:06 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Masahiro Yamada' <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
CC:     "linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Nick Desaulniers" <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        "Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@...nel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] kbuild: single-quote the format string of printf

...
> All of "\\n", "\n", '\n' are the same.

and \\n (without any quote characters at all).

Personally I'd use 'format' for printf.
To make it obvious that nothing is to be expanded.
But it isn't really worth changing existing 'stuff'.

	David

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