[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] checkpatch: re-enable warnings about split long strings

[Luca Boccassi]

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