Re: [PATCH] usb: make printk messges more searchable

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 10:42:17 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> > Hi Wu,
> >
> > On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > Make USB printk messages long and straightforward.  One of these
> > > decorated USB error messages cost me some smart efforts to locate.
> >
> > That would make the code break the 80 columns limit.
> >
> > From "Documentation/CodingStyle":
> >
> > "The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly
> > preferred limit."
>
> Too rigid an application is bad. The kernel must be greppable.

I've also been bitten by split strings when grepping kernel source code. A 
cgrep that would unsplit strings before searching them would be nice :-)

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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