Re: [PATCH 0/4] treewide: Fix line continuation formats

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Thu Nov 16 2017 - 14:35:42 EST


On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 09:17 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 12:11 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 07:27 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Avoid using line continations in formats as that causes unexpected
> > > output.
> >
> > Is having lines greater than 80 characters the preferred method?
>
> yes.
>
> > Could you add quotes before the backlash and before the first word on
> > the next line instead?
>
> coalesced formats are preferred.

In the future, please reference the commit 6f76b6fcaa60 "CodingStyle:
Document the exception of not splitting user-visible strings, for
grepping"

thanks,

Mimi