[PATCH] staging: media: lirc: lirc_zilog.c: fix quoted strings split across lines

Luis de Bethencourt luis at debethencourt.com
Tue Nov 25 20:40:56 UTC 2014


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:27:24PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 20:19 +0000, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> > checkpatch makes an exception to the 80-colum rule for quotes strings, and
> > Documentation/CodingStyle recommends not splitting quotes strings across lines
> > because it breaks the ability to grep for the string. Fixing these.
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
> []
> > @@ -794,8 +792,7 @@ static int fw_load(struct IR_tx *tx)
> >  	if (!read_uint8(&data, tx_data->endp, &version))
> >  		goto corrupt;
> >  	if (version != 1) {
> > -		dev_err(tx->ir->l.dev, "unsupported code set file version (%u, expected"
> > -			    "1) -- please upgrade to a newer driver",
> > +		dev_err(tx->ir->l.dev, "unsupported code set file version (%u, expected1) -- please upgrade to a newer driver",
> >  			    version);
> 
> Hello Luis.
> 
> Please look at the strings being coalesced before
> submitting patches.
> 
> It's a fairly common defect to have either a missing
> space between the coalesced fragments or too many
> spaces.
> 
> It's almost certain that there should be a space
> between the "expected" and "1" here.
> 
> 

Hello Joe,

Thanks for taking the time to review this. I sent a new
version fixing the missing space. 


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