Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm/slab.c: Fix continuation line formats

From: Frans Pop
Date: Sun Jan 31 2010 - 15:32:27 EST


Joe Perches wrote:
> String constants that are continued on subsequent lines with \
> are not good.

Fun. I'd done the same grep earlier today. AFAICT you've got all the
ones I had.

> The characters between seq_printf elements are tabs.
> That was probably not intentional, but isn't being changed.
> It's behind an #ifdef, so it could probably become a single space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/slab.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 7451bda..9964619 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -4228,8 +4228,8 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
> unsigned long node_frees = cachep->node_frees;
> unsigned long overflows = cachep->node_overflow;
>
> - seq_printf(m, " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu \
> - %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu", allocs, high, grown,
> + seq_printf(m, " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu",
> + allocs, high, grown,
> reaped, errors, max_freeable, node_allocs,
> node_frees, overflows);
> }

If that spacing part is really needed (is it?), wouldn't it be more
readable as:
> + seq_printf(m, " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu"
> + " "
> + "%4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu",
> + allocs, high, grown,

Also, are there supposed to be tabs in that spacing part?

Cheers,
FJP
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