Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Join string literals back

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 14:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

Thanks for review, my comments below.

> On Tue, 09 May 2017, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > There is no point to keep string literal split. It even makes
> > slightly
> > harder to maintain and debug.
> 
> Ooold code, from a time when random people would annoy others over
> 80-column instead of doing useful reviews...

Yes, I know, nowadays checkpatch doesn't complain on them.

> > While here, print negative error without changing a sign as it is a
> > common pattern in the kernel.
> 
> A separate patch for this would be better: it would be easier to
> actually check that no functional changes crept in by mistake.

It doesn't make sense to me. It would touch same lines of code I do
already here and it's only one place, see below.

> > Â	rc = fan_set_enable();
> > Â	if (rc < 0) {
> > -		pr_err("fan watchdog: error %d while enabling fan,
> > "
> > -		ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ"will try again later...\n", -rc);
> > +		pr_err("fan watchdog: error %d while enabling fan,
> > will try again later...\n",
> > +		ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂrc);


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