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| author | Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com> | 2021-09-04 13:06:21 +0530 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2021-09-14 15:07:26 -0600 |
| commit | d9548979f7aee0cbff4b407e8fce4af6b6d3cab0 (patch) | |
| tree | 63854356bc6d4217d30675fc233ac4449ca079ba /Documentation/dev-tools | |
| parent | d7482c0da76c15b29624dccff2304589eae4651b (diff) | |
Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message
Add a new message type SPLIT_STRING under the 'Indentation and Line
Breaks' subsection. Checkpatch documentation for the splitting of
quoted strings that appear in userspace, across multiple lines.
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904073621.12987-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst index f0956e9ea2d8..b7a1288e96a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst @@ -710,6 +710,12 @@ Indentation and Line Breaks See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings + **SPLIT_STRING** + Quoted strings that appear as messages in userspace and can be + grepped, should not be split across multiple lines. + + See: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20120203052727.GA15035@leaf/ + **TRAILING_STATEMENTS** Trailing statements (for example after any conditional) should be on the next line. |