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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
Cc: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, noralf@tronnes.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/fbtft: Hush checkpatch.pl warning about unnecessary line continuations.
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:56:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170301075603.GA25099@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170228195244.29205-1-alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:52:44PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> Use a single fmt string with appropriate verbs as conversion specifiers,
> followed by the original string literals and the integer argument
> instead of using a backslash to escape a new line embedded inbetween
> quoted string literals passed as fmt arguments to dev_err() invoked in
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c
> index 26f24e3..6d03041 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c
> @@ -129,17 +129,19 @@ static int set_gamma(struct fbtft_par *par, u32 *curves)
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < 63; i++) {
>  		if (i > 0 && curves[i] < 2) {
> -			dev_err(par->info->device,
> -				"Illegal value in Grayscale Lookup Table at index %d. " \
> -				"Must be greater than 1\n", i);
> +			dev_err(par->info->device, "%s %d. %s\n",
> +				"Illegal value in Grayscale Lookup Table at index",
> +				i,
> +				"Must be greater than 1");

Huh?  This should just be:
				"Illegal value in Grayscale Lookup Table at index %d. Must be greater than 1\n",
				i);
Don't split the string for no good reason.

>  			return -EINVAL;
>  		}
>  		acc += curves[i];
>  		tmp[i] = acc;
>  		if (acc > 180) {
> -			dev_err(par->info->device,
> -				"Illegal value(s) in Grayscale Lookup Table. " \
> -				"At index=%d, the accumulated value has exceeded 180\n", i);
> +			dev_err(par->info->device, "%s%d, %s\n",
> +				"Illegal value(s) in Grayscale Lookup Table. At index=",
> +				i,
> +				"the accumulated value has exceeded 180");

Same here.

please fix.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-01  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-28 19:52 [PATCH] staging/fbtft: Hush checkpatch.pl warning about unnecessary line continuations Alexander Kapshuk
2017-02-28 20:34 ` Joe Perches
2017-02-28 21:03   ` Alexander Kapshuk
2017-03-01  7:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-03-04  9:00   ` Alexander Kapshuk

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