[PATCH] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message

[PATCH] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message

[Utkarsh Verma]

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 <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
---
 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

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message

[Jonathan Corbet]

Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Applied, thanks.

jon