Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 2/2] rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU'ssource code.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 18 2012 - 02:33:10 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 15:12 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Although the C language allows you to break strings across lines, doing
> > this makes it hard for people to find the Linux kernel code corresponding
> > to a given console message. This commit therefore fixes broken strings
> > throughout RCU's source code.
>
> While I'm not a strict 80 chars zealot, I do find exceedingly
> long lines utterly annoying, editors either wrap them in the
> most hideous way or you don't see them.

Well, but if it's exceedingly long in the editor then it's
probably exceedingly long in the syslog as well and need fixing,
right?

Or it's printed inside some exceedingly deep nested block of
code, which too could use improvement, right?

Thanks,

Ingo
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