On Wed, 2017-03-15 at 12:23 +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Joe Perches wrote: [] > > never break user-visible strings such as > > printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them. > > Right, I'm aware of this. I'm also aware of the other rule we have > where lines are not to exceed 80 chars. Hence my question; "is the 80 > chars rule the lessor sin of the two". > > Rock <=> hard place > > Actually I would say that the error message sub-optimal and could, in > fact be edited to be more succinct, thus not breaking any rules. It's not a 'sin' at all. The rule is to exceed 80 columns when the logging message format is long. I didn't even look at the format content. Change it if you wish. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
