From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79150C433EF for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2021 07:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E32260F5D for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2021 07:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1350900AbhIDHh4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2021 03:37:56 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:43354 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233690AbhIDHhy (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2021 03:37:54 -0400 Received: from mail-pj1-x102a.google.com (mail-pj1-x102a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::102a]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E616BC061575; Sat, 4 Sep 2021 00:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pj1-x102a.google.com with SMTP id n13-20020a17090a4e0d00b0017946980d8dso965751pjh.5; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:36:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5VOBwO0t8QC3/busodJEkbjeLNfNwavGj/xcb/50tPE=; b=HzpwPF9amWlZDtjG7PeY0Uo5IDxUhJhvHmXHnuvyOKr/pV3gFxigFoMVYMVcklgaAf PrZqMpccOavqLruEqdqP9G2j4L+pfAr3FNlM0gGAfE9gykii7yadnlLpfDQ/3c0rl6D7 ENA6EWEnq4ZoPgk5VZ6xWPiZdKFjVGpNjNB5ACrHJgtLJH/XifW2cOOIfZTd8wMoWMLR VEdz2Mi0r/lDV5tZIC28MeEiy8uyvazq+Tfibz+36wDbPiXzZQqWwD9352YQNak0vh0v HuvvuqDjrGKRQj7Osoux+a7mMORFG0zIXmtZrC0QSjSCgzXi8Azd35cT7jVOd8OJtOVN OIQA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5VOBwO0t8QC3/busodJEkbjeLNfNwavGj/xcb/50tPE=; b=GKlwh3f6icv8A7MoOQK0GRDKjOH1DqTbUHlNJTIVzcDfxbRf+BRID9+R+Fr9Ogs0L6 rbVq2ivK4WH/37UrDuUbKBGWyugoIqbO3UfxOv2rcloKLl8DBOOTjAZXdRCS7sD5yBhL iCsIXEOPyZVngk9b03E94/wpmW+buuTwUNBaVl1Ev+HFtiAC64V7VkR2IA2FI8AvP52/ NRTlKREmXl9xqLSj2N0bQkb+Df2YjqJGeAqnJaKffN7rWFYCl0KRhphkkMWQ68IS18jM eYyEO1RQbDrZD55F7c0EOONDWO8YNrsFjdHNaUUDYncq1clbxdKOGanxavGv3CkwYTps dhCg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532hqtaKEPfjeSRItYjpHW7GBJZlMZu1yMV5sUIJM4AR7QMsrquL UKMeBBZVVyL3t14kRhWAgvk= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJybKqrnXjJwi9WgCZmTF5ov1tESIOiScEfwfEfXuF7Aid3UvIImFjy0F41VK9E4vajsm6LXLA== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:c410:b0:138:b4be:289b with SMTP id k16-20020a170902c41000b00138b4be289bmr2374253plk.13.1630741013166; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([2405:201:6006:a148:82a8:3271:93dc:763c]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id w2sm1320490pjq.5.2021.09.04.00.36.49 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:36:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Utkarsh Verma To: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Lukas Bulwahn , Joe Perches , Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Utkarsh Verma Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 13:06:21 +0530 Message-Id: <20210904073621.12987-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Add a new message type SPLIT_STRING under the 'Indentation and Line Breaks' subsection. Checkpatch documentation for the splitting of quoted strings that appear in userspace, across multiple lines. Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma --- Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst index f0956e9ea2d8..b7a1288e96a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst @@ -710,6 +710,12 @@ Indentation and Line Breaks See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings + **SPLIT_STRING** + Quoted strings that appear as messages in userspace and can be + grepped, should not be split across multiple lines. + + See: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20120203052727.GA15035@leaf/ + **TRAILING_STATEMENTS** Trailing statements (for example after any conditional) should be on the next line. -- 2.25.1