Quoted strings should not be split across lines. As put it in [1]: "never break user-visible strings such as printk messages because that breaks the ability to grep for them." While at it, fix the alignment of the arguments in the sentence. Note: this introduce a checkpatch CHECK: line length of 123 exceeds 100 columns, as the line now is: vchiq_loud_error("%d: service %d (%c%c%c%c) version mismatch - local (%d, min %d) vs. remote (%d, min %d)", But now the string is grep-able and the whole function call more clear. Reported by checkpatch.pl [1] Documentation/process/coding-style.rst Signed-off-by: Gaston Gonzalez <gascoar@xxxxxxxxx> --- .../vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c index 3af55e78f356..ab97a35e63f9 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c @@ -1499,13 +1499,9 @@ parse_open(struct vchiq_state *state, struct vchiq_header *header) if ((service->version < version_min) || (version < service->version_min)) { /* Version mismatch */ vchiq_loud_error_header(); - vchiq_loud_error("%d: service %d (%c%c%c%c) " - "version mismatch - local (%d, min %d)" - " vs. remote (%d, min %d)", - state->id, service->localport, - VCHIQ_FOURCC_AS_4CHARS(fourcc), - service->version, service->version_min, - version, version_min); + vchiq_loud_error("%d: service %d (%c%c%c%c) version mismatch - local (%d, min %d) vs. remote (%d, min %d)", + state->id, service->localport, VCHIQ_FOURCC_AS_4CHARS(fourcc), + service->version, service->version_min, version, version_min); vchiq_loud_error_footer(); vchiq_service_put(service); service = NULL; -- 2.33.1