Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 2/2] rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU'ssource code.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu May 17 2012 - 18:20:34 EST


On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 15:12 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Although the C language allows you to break strings across lines, doing
> this makes it hard for people to find the Linux kernel code corresponding
> to a given console message. This commit therefore fixes broken strings
> throughout RCU's source code.

While I'm not a strict 80 chars zealot, I do find exceedingly long lines
utterly annoying, editors either wrap them in the most hideous way or
you don't see them.

I'm not going make a big fuss, but I don't think such patches are an
improvement.
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