On 08/17/2016 10:26 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 17 August 2016 at 21:19, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: >> On 08/16/2016 11:38 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: >>> If you would prefer to keep error'ing out, then I can suggest to add some >>> verbose message instead of the assertion, like: >>> >>> if (!t->freq_hz) { >>> error_setg(errp, "altera_timer: \"clock-frequency\" property " \ > > You don't need the '\' at the end of the line here. > >>> "must be provided"); >>> return; >>> } >> >> That's better, thanks. >> >> btw breaking strings is frowned upon in linux/u-boot as it makes it >> impossible to git grep for error message. Does the same apply to qemu? > > We tend to prefer to keep the lines below our line length limit, > even if that means splitting them sometimes.
Is there any reason for that except for "we always did it that way" ? Linux did it that way before, but then added this exception to make it possible to grep for those strings. Thanks > thanks > -- PMM > -- Best regards, Marek Vasut