Re: [PATCH] Change a WARN message in checkpatch

From: Paolo Ciarrocchi
Date: Sun Feb 24 2008 - 13:14:26 EST


On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> How about:
> - WARN("no space between function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
> + WARN("there should be no space between function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);

I originally suggested:
+ WARN("don't put a space between
function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
but I really prefer your version.

> The original phrasing can be interpreted like "there is no space between ..." and the correct
> interpretation should be "there should be no space between ..."

Indeed.

Ciao,
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Paolo
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