Re: [PATCH] x86/platform/UV: Clean up the UV APIC code

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 09:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> In particular the random line breaks, apparently to pacify checkpatch, were
> horribly widespread. I just made the lines longer - that's still more readable
> than the multi-line horror that was there before.
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> arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c |  500 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
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> -	pr_info("UV: OEM IDs %s/%s, System/HUB Types %d/%d, uv_apic %d\n",
> -		oem_id, oem_table_id, uv_system_type,
> -		uv_min_hub_revision_id, uv_apic);
> +	pr_info("UV: OEM IDs %s/%s, System/HUB Types %d/%d, uv_apic %d\n", oem_id, oem_table_id, uv_system_type, uv_min_hub_revision_id, uv_apic);

140+ chars on a single line.

Is this really better or easier to read?

Long lines make it harder to humans to verify
format and arguments used in printf type calls.