Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for 2.6.32-rc6

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> 11/12/2009 07:36 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Breaking strings mid-sentence is something we try not to do. (If you 
> > know about places that do it 'quite often' then those places need fixing 
> > too.)
> 
> Oh... I do that all the time and I see a lot of them around too.

I hate them. I do greps for error messages, and it's annoying as hell if 
it's hard to find.

'checkpatch' is the major reason for them, but I think we've fixed 
checkpath long ago to not warn about long lines if they are due to a long 
string.

Strings should basically be broken up only at '\n' characters, so

	printk("This is a made-up example.\n"
		"Ok like this\n");

is fine, because you can expect to grep for "made-up example", but not 
over the newline.

				Linus