Subject: Re: powerpc/fadump: trivial fix of spelling mistake, clean up message

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 04:33:03 -0700

On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 21:20 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 03:51 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 11:38 +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 26/06/16 05:19, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2016-24-06 at 17:43:00 UTC, Colin King wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > trivial fix to spelling mistake "rgistration" and minor clean up
> > > > > of the printk error message
> > > > Can you also:
> > > >  - use pr_err()
> > > >  - unsplit the message, ie. keep the string all on one line.
> > > I can unsplit the string, but checkpatch will complain about that, so
> > > I'm not sure if that's preferred or not.
> > > 
> > > WARNING: line over 80 characters
> > If the statement is wrapped after the format,
> > then checkpatch shouldn't complain.
> > 
> > 	pr_err("Failed to invalidate firmware-assisted dump registration. Unexpected error (%d).\n",
> > 	       rc);
> But that's not actually any more readable, so just ignore checkpatch in this
> case IMHO. It's a guide, not the gospel.

Absolutely.  Ignore checkpatch whenever appropriate.

There are relatively few lines in kernel source that
have printk arguments post format that extend beyond
80 columns though and standardization is also good.

cheers back.