From: Utkarsh Verma Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 07:36:21 +0000 (+0530) Subject: Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d9548979f7aee0cbff4b407e8fce4af6b6d3cab0;p=linux.git 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 Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904073621.12987-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst index f0956e9ea2d84..b7a1288e96a92 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.