[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] checkpatch: re-enable warnings about split long strings
Luca Boccassi
bluca at debian.org
Mon Oct 2 12:01:17 CEST 2017
On Fri, 2017-09-29 at 08:37 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The Linux kernel style policy about strings is that strings should
> be always put on one line. This makes sense since a typical use
> case is for a user to type the error message into a search engine
> or grep, and it won't be found if split across lines.
> This patch just re-enables that check.
>
> Yes, lots of DPDK code now splits strings, that doesn't
> make it right.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> ---
> devtools/checkpatches.sh | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> index a56c41a301c0..3e6081dd673e 100755
> --- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> +++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ options="$options --show-types"
> options="$options --ignore=LINUX_VERSION_CODE,FILE_PATH_CHANGES,\
> VOLATILE,PREFER_PACKED,PREFER_ALIGNED,PREFER_PRINTF,\
> PREFER_KERNEL_TYPES,BIT_MACRO,CONST_STRUCT,\
> -SPLIT_STRING,LONG_LINE_STRING,\
> LINE_SPACING,PARENTHESIS_ALIGNMENT,NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE,\
> NEW_TYPEDEFS,COMPARISON_TO_NULL"
>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
+1 - being able to reliably Google/grep across such a large code base
is extremely useful
--
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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