On 1/26/15 11:28 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > 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 :). OK, fair enough :) >>> 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. Eye of the beholder, etc. ;) Anyway, that's my $0.02, we can see what others think. -Eric -- 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