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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, "Ken O'Brien" <kernel@kenobrien.org>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, swetland@google.com,
	arve@android.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: checkpatch.pl fixes
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:37:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18159.1350898659@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350781512.16706.3.camel@joe-AO722>

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.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-22  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-20 22:33 [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: checkpatch.pl fixes Ken O'Brien
2012-10-20 22:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: android: binder.c: checkpatch.pl Ken O'Brien
2012-10-21  1:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: checkpatch.pl fixes Joe Perches
2012-10-21  2:05   ` Cruz Julian Bishop
2012-10-21  2:09     ` Joe Perches
2012-10-22  9:37 ` David Howells [this message]
2012-10-22 12:15   ` Joe Perches
2012-10-22 13:02     ` Peter Hurley
2012-10-22 13:16       ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on unnecessary line continuations Joe Perches
2012-10-22 16:45         ` Joe Perches
2012-10-28  4:46           ` [PATCH v2] " Joe Perches
2012-10-22 20:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: checkpatch.pl fixes Greg KH
2012-10-24 14:48   ` kernel kernel

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