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

From: Frans Pop
Date: Sun Jan 31 2010 - 18:53:52 EST


On Sunday 31 January 2010, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 21:32 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > 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,
>
> If it's required (most likely not, but it's a seq_printf and
> some people think those should never be modified because it's
> a public interface), it should probably be explicit:
>
> " : globalstat %7lu %6lu %5lu %4lu \t\t\t\t%4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %4lu"

Yes, would be better. And if it is kept for compatibility it probably
deserves a comment explaining the weirdness.

Cheers,
FJP
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