Re: [PATCH] staging: media: lirc: lirc_zilog.c: fix quoted strings split across lines

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Nov 25 2014 - 15:27:33 EST


On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 20:19 +0000, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> checkpatch makes an exception to the 80-colum rule for quotes strings, and
> Documentation/CodingStyle recommends not splitting quotes strings across lines
> because it breaks the ability to grep for the string. Fixing these.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
[]
> @@ -794,8 +792,7 @@ static int fw_load(struct IR_tx *tx)
> if (!read_uint8(&data, tx_data->endp, &version))
> goto corrupt;
> if (version != 1) {
> - dev_err(tx->ir->l.dev, "unsupported code set file version (%u, expected"
> - "1) -- please upgrade to a newer driver",
> + dev_err(tx->ir->l.dev, "unsupported code set file version (%u, expected1) -- please upgrade to a newer driver",
> version);

Hello Luis.

Please look at the strings being coalesced before
submitting patches.

It's a fairly common defect to have either a missing
space between the coalesced fragments or too many
spaces.

It's almost certain that there should be a space
between the "expected" and "1" here.


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