From: Julia Lawall Subject: Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 00/12] drop unneeded newline Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:55:08 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <1514386305-7402-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1878806802.2632123.1514901158666.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Julia Lawall , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, dev@openvswitch.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dccp@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Shishkin , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com, esc storagedev , Namhyung Kim , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org To: Bob Peterson Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1878806802.2632123.1514901158666.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Bob Peterson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > | Drop newline at the end of a message string when the printing function adds > | a newline. > > Hi Julia, > > NACK. > > As much as it's a pain when searching the source code for output strings, > this patch set goes against the accepted Linux coding style document. See: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings I don't think that's the case: "However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them." julia > > Regards, > > Bob Peterson > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >