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SubjectRe: [PATCH] watchdog: Strip stray space in log message
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Hi Alan,

Le mercredi 04 juin 2008, Alan Cox a écrit :
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:38:53 +0200
> Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > Strip a stray space in log messages of 3 watchdog drivers.
> > (And fold these long lines to make checkpatch.pl happy.)
>
> Don't break up strings of quoted text - it makes grepping for them much
> harder.

As written above, checkpatch.pl told me to break them up.

CodingStyle says: "Long strings are as well broken into shorter
strings." And quite rightly so IMHO, if you have to rely on grepping
the whole kernel tree to find out where a log message comes from, it
means that this log message is bad and needs to be improved.

Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
Suse L3
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