[PATCH v2] Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message
From: Utkarsh Verma <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-04 18:10:21
Subsystem:
checkpatch documentation, documentation, documentation process, the rest · Maintainers:
Dwaipayan Ray, Lukas Bulwahn, Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index f0956e9ea..b7a1288e9 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.
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2.17.1
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