On 01/26/2015, 06:18 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 1/26/15 10:24 AM, Jan Mrazek wrote: >> - multiline strings changed to singleline (so it can be greped) > > Thereby blowing past 80 columns in many cases, something we generally > don't like to do, per Documentation/CodingStyle: When you refer to that document, you certainly read the whole chapter 2 :). >> The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly >> preferred limit. > > I'm not so sure about the grep-ability value, because nobody's going to > grep for "...%s): %s:%d: inode #%lu: ..." anyway... Perhaps, but grep EXT4.*block.*comm does the trick quite nice... And this is actually a nice example of the point of this exercise. > but if it's really deemed desirable to keep these strings on one line, > we could do i.e.: > >> + printk(KERN_CRIT >> +"EXT4-fs error (device %s): %s:%d: inode #%lu: block %llu: comm %s: %pV\n", >> inode->i_sb->s_id, function, line, inode->i_ino, >> block, current->comm, &vaf) > > which is a trick the xfs code uses in some places. Oh no, that's ugly. If anything, this could have been pr_crit("EXT4-fs error ... thanks, -- js suse labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html