Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: extend line continuation test | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:09:55 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 08:02 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > Preprocessor directives and asm statements should be > > allowed to have a line continuation. > > For preprocessor directives I agree. > > But why do asm statements need it? They'r just strings, so just closing with > a double quote at the end of the first line, and opening again with a > double quote > on the next line works fine.
I agree it does, but it's a pretty common existing style and I want to avoid people submitting unnecessary "fix" patches.
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