Re: [PATCH 05/10] drivers/scsi/arcmsr: Fix continuation line formats

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Frans Pop wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
>>> -                     printk(KERN_NOTICE "arcmsr%d: wait 'flush adapter cache' \
>>> -                     timeout, retry count down = %d \n", acb->host->host_no, retry_count);
>> 
>> So I might personally dislike this style
> 
> The problem here is not style, but that the whitespace of the indentation
> on the second line becomes part of the output!
> That makes the code defective and is why Joe posted the patch series.

Joe could have pointed this out in the changelog.
s/are not good/incorporate unintended whitespace/

[James wrote:]
>> Why?  It's perfectly valid ansi C.

Its syntax is valid but not its semantics.

>> Consider this change veto'd unless you can get an explicit ack from the
>> current maintainer for changing their style.

How about the maintainer takes the fix patch and adjusts style to his
liking?  (That's what I would do because I like fix submissions.)
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