Re: [PATCH 7/9] drm/i915: Combine substrings for a message in gen6_drpc_info()

[Dan Carpenter]

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 09:12:32PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 06:59:23PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:15:00 +0200
> > 
> > The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.
> > 
> > WARNING: quoted string split across lines
> > 
> > Thus fix the affected source code place.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> > index 6f3119d40c50..dbd52ea89fb4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c
> > @@ -1529,8 +1529,8 @@ static int gen6_drpc_info(struct seq_file *m)
> >  
> >  	forcewake_count = READ_ONCE(dev_priv->uncore.fw_domain[FW_DOMAIN_ID_RENDER].wake_count);
> >  	if (forcewake_count) {
> > -		seq_puts(m, "RC information inaccurate because somebody "
> > -			    "holds a forcewake reference \n");
> > +		seq_puts(m,
> > +			 "RC information inaccurate because somebody holds a forcewake reference.\n");
> 
> And now you break the 80col rule. Blind adherence to checkpatch is
> impossible.
> -Chris

No.  Checkpatch allows you to go over 80 characters to avoid splitting a
string.

regards,
dan carpenter