From d9548979f7aee0cbff4b407e8fce4af6b6d3cab0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Utkarsh Verma Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 13:06:21 +0530 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools') diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst index f0956e9ea2d8..b7a1288e96a9 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. -- cgit v1.2.3