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| author | Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> | 2011-08-03 12:19:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-08-06 11:59:07 -0700 |
| commit | 6f76b6fcaa6025bc9b2c00e055c7ccd39730568d (patch) | |
| tree | 1b34503081591f2a5748c0902e6e75f917de070b /Documentation | |
| parent | 1117f72ea0217ba0cc19f05adbbd8b9a397f5ab7 (diff) | |
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CodingStyle: Document the exception of not splitting user-visible strings, for grepping
Patch reviewers now recommend not splitting long user-visible strings,
such as printk messages, even if they exceed 80 columns. This avoids
breaking grep. However, that recommendation did not actually appear
anywhere in Documentation/CodingStyle.
See, for example, the thread at
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c1312215262.11635.15.camel%40Joe%2dLaptop%3e
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingStyle | 23 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index fa6e25b94a54..c940239d9678 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -80,22 +80,13 @@ available tools. The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly preferred limit. -Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks. -Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and are placed -substantially to the right. The same applies to function headers with a long -argument list. Long strings are as well broken into shorter strings. The -only exception to this is where exceeding 80 columns significantly increases -readability and does not hide information. - -void fun(int a, int b, int c) -{ - if (condition) - printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning this is a long printk with " - "3 parameters a: %u b: %u " - "c: %u \n", a, b, c); - else - next_statement; -} +Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks, unless +exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does not hide +information. Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and +are placed substantially to the right. The same applies to function headers +with a long argument list. However, never break user-visible strings such as +printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them. + Chapter 3: Placing Braces and Spaces |