Re: [PATCH 0/4] treewide: Fix line continuation formats

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Nov 16 2017 - 12:17:42 EST


On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 12:11 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 07:27 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Avoid using line continations in formats as that causes unexpected
> > output.
>
> Is having lines greater than 80 characters the preferred method?

yes.

> Could you add quotes before the backlash and before the first word on
> the next line instead?

coalesced formats are preferred.