Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message
authorUtkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
Sat, 4 Sep 2021 07:36:21 +0000 (13:06 +0530)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:07:26 +0000 (15:07 -0600)
commitd9548979f7aee0cbff4b407e8fce4af6b6d3cab0
tree63854356bc6d4217d30675fc233ac4449ca079ba
parentd7482c0da76c15b29624dccff2304589eae4651b
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>
Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst