Re: [PATCH] staging/fbtft: Hush checkpatch.pl warning about unnecessary line continuations.

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:52:44PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> Use a single fmt string with appropriate verbs as conversion specifiers,
> followed by the original string literals and the integer argument
> instead of using a backslash to escape a new line embedded inbetween
> quoted string literals passed as fmt arguments to dev_err() invoked in
> drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c
> index 26f24e3..6d03041 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1331.c
> @@ -129,17 +129,19 @@ static int set_gamma(struct fbtft_par *par, u32 *curves)
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < 63; i++) {
>  		if (i > 0 && curves[i] < 2) {
> -			dev_err(par->info->device,
> -				"Illegal value in Grayscale Lookup Table at index %d. " \
> -				"Must be greater than 1\n", i);
> +			dev_err(par->info->device, "%s %d. %s\n",
> +				"Illegal value in Grayscale Lookup Table at index",
> +				i,
> +				"Must be greater than 1");

Huh?  This should just be:
				"Illegal value in Grayscale Lookup Table at index %d. Must be greater than 1\n",
				i);
Don't split the string for no good reason.

>  			return -EINVAL;
>  		}
>  		acc += curves[i];
>  		tmp[i] = acc;
>  		if (acc > 180) {
> -			dev_err(par->info->device,
> -				"Illegal value(s) in Grayscale Lookup Table. " \
> -				"At index=%d, the accumulated value has exceeded 180\n", i);
> +			dev_err(par->info->device, "%s%d, %s\n",
> +				"Illegal value(s) in Grayscale Lookup Table. At index=",
> +				i,
> +				"the accumulated value has exceeded 180");

Same here.

please fix.

thanks,

greg k-h