On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Bob Peterson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > | ----- Original Message ----- > | | Drop newline at the end of a message string when the printing function adds > | | a newline. > | > | Hi Julia, > | > | NACK. > | > | As much as it's a pain when searching the source code for output strings, > | this patch set goes against the accepted Linux coding style document. See: > | > | https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings > | > | Regards, > | > | Bob Peterson > | > | > Hm. I guess I stand corrected. The document reads: > > "However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them." > > Still, the GFS2 and DLM code has a plethora of broken-up printk messages, > and I don't like the thought of re-combining them all. Actually, the point of the patch was to remove the unnecessary \n at the end of the string, because log_print will add another one. If you prefer to keep the string broken up, I can resend the patch in that form, but without the unnecessary \n. julia
