> From: Phil Pokorny [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> While you are in drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c replacing panic() with
> nmi_panic() can you also fix a few more of the broken strings?  The
> Linux style guide specfiically says NOT to break strings that are user
> visible because it breaks "grep".  So:

Ahh, yes.  I should have fixed this as well as the former case.
But this patch set has already been queued into -mm tree, so
I'll leave this patch if the fix is not important.

Regards,
Hidehiro Kawai

> 
> -       panic("An NMI occurred. Depending on your system the reason "
> +       nmi_panic(regs, "An NMI occurred. Depending on your system the reason 
> "
>                 "for the NMI is logged in any one of the following "
>                 "resources:\n"
>                 "1. Integrated Management Log (IML)\n"
> 
> Should probably be:
> 
> -       panic("An NMI occurred. Depending on your system the reason "
> -                "for the NMI is logged in any one of the following "
> -                "resources:\n"
> +       nmi_panic(regs, "An NMI occurred. Depending on your system the
> reason for the NMI is logged in any one of the following resources:\n"
>                 "1. Integrated Management Log (IML)\n"
> 
> So it's okay to break on "\n", but not in the middle of a line.
> 
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