On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 04:02:56PM +0100, Stefano Babic wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
> 
> On 04/02/2014 15:50, Hannes Petermaier wrote:
[snip]
> > Another thing is linewrapping of output strings, to obey to the rules i
> > have to format the string as following:
> > 
> > if (i2c_probe(TPS65217_CHIP_PM)) {
> >     printf("PMIC chip (0x%02x) not present! skipping" \
> >             "further configuration.\n", TPS65217_CHIP_PM);
> >     return;
> > }
> > 
> > But this makes it impossible to grep the code in case of an error.
> 
> You must combine a more complicate grep, maybe with the -A (after
> context) option or using a regexp. However, this is not a reason to
> break the rule.

Strings are the reason to break the rule and we have checkpatch patched
(mostly?) to not complain.  It's even true in the kernel.

-- 
Tom

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