Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753665AbcL3Sk7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:40:59 -0500 Received: from saturn.retrosnub.co.uk ([178.18.118.26]:52659 "EHLO saturn.retrosnub.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752685AbcL3Sk6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:40:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 1/8] fixed long description text exceeding 80 characters To: Scott Matheina , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1482696216-8013-1-git-send-email-scott@matheina.com> <1482696216-8013-2-git-send-email-scott@matheina.com> Cc: Hartmut Knaack , Peter Meerwald-Stadler , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org From: Jonathan Cameron Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:40:56 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1482696216-8013-2-git-send-email-scott@matheina.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1235 Lines: 31 On 25/12/16 19:56, Scott Matheina wrote: > The description was split into 2 lines due to the line greatly > exceeding the 80 character soft limit. This is often deliberately done with strings. It makes them much easier to grep for in the source. Adding the artificial newline may destroy attempts by userspace tools to do their own formatting of this string. So best to leave this one alone. Jonathan > > Signed-off-by: Scott Matheina > --- > drivers/staging/iio/addac/adt7316.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/addac/adt7316.c b/drivers/staging/iio/addac/adt7316.c > index a7d90c8..08413a8 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/addac/adt7316.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/addac/adt7316.c > @@ -2181,5 +2181,6 @@ int adt7316_probe(struct device *dev, struct adt7316_bus *bus, > EXPORT_SYMBOL(adt7316_probe); > > MODULE_AUTHOR("Sonic Zhang "); > -MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Analog Devices ADT7316/7/8 and ADT7516/7/9 digital temperature sensor, ADC and DAC driver"); > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Analog Devices ADT7316/7/8 and ADT7516/7/9 digital\n" > + "temperature sensor, ADC and DAC driver"); > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); >