Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: checkpatch.pl fixes | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:15:09 -0700 |
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waOn Mon, 2012-10-22 at 10:37 +0100, David Howells wrote: > Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 23:33 +0100, Ken O'Brien wrote: > > ... > > > - pr_err("binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed to " > > > + pr_err("binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed to " \ > > > "map pages in userspace, no vma\n", proc->pid); > > ... > > Nice try, but the "right" way to do this is to coalesce formats like: > > > > pr_err("binder: %d: binder_alloc_buf failed to map pages in userspace, no vma\n", > > proc->pid); > > Surely the right way is to fix _checkpatch_ to see ["]\n\s*["] and merge the > lines before checking them? We shouldn't have to fix up the source in either > of these fashions just because checkpatch is broken.
checkpatch is stupid, but it's not broken here.
Formats should be coalesced into a single line to make grepping the source for dmesg output easier.
More likely checkpatch could be changed to bleat yet another warning like
"line continuation used outside macro definition"
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