Re: [PATCH] staging: media:lirc: Added a newline character after declaration

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Aug 12 2015 - 11:49:37 EST


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 08:41:42PM +0530, Aparna Karuthodi wrote:
> Added a newline character to remove a coding style warning detected
> by checkpatch.
>
> The warning is given below:
> drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c:1169: WARNING: quoted string split
> across lines
>
> Signed-off-by: Aparna Karuthodi <kdasaparna@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c
> index 19628d0..628577f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_serial.c
> @@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ module_init(lirc_serial_init_module);
> module_exit(lirc_serial_exit_module);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Infra-red receiver driver for serial ports.");
> -MODULE_AUTHOR("Ralph Metzler, Trent Piepho, Ben Pfaff, "
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Ralph Metzler, Trent Piepho, Ben Pfaff,\n"
> "Christoph Bartelmus, Andrei Tanas");

No, you just changed the way this string looks, that's not ok at all.

This is fine the way it is, you can ignore it.
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