Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] IB/ipoib: Log sysfs 'dev_id' accesses from userspace

From: Arseny Maslennikov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 10:26:56 +0300

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:47:27PM +0100, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon,  3 Sep 2018 19:13:16 +0300
> Arseny Maslennikov <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > +	if (ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port) {
> > +		netdev_info_once(ndev,
> > +			"\"%s\" wants to know my dev_id. "
> > +			"Should it look at dev_port instead?\n",
> > +			current->comm);
> > +		netdev_info_once(ndev,
> > +			"See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.\n");
> > +	}
> 
> Single line message is sufficient.
> Also don't break strings in messages.
> 

OK, will fix in v4.

(Sorry if the following is too off-topic here)
Multi-line messages in separate printk calls can be racy, I get that.
But I'd like to hear some reasoning behind the style decision to not
break a long string into many string literals. (I'll most certainly not
be alone in this, Documentation/process/ does not mention reasons, only
the requirements themselves)

The only drawback I currently see is that breaking a long message into
multiple string literals makes it impossible to git grep the kernel tree
for the whole message text.
However, splitting a long line this way allows us to nicely wrap the
code at 80 columns, which is a readability boon.

Are there any other reasons to avoid that? Except maybe matters of taste. :)

> > +	}
> > +
> > +	ret = sprintf(buf, "%#x\n", ndev->dev_id);
> > +
> > +	return ret;
> 
> Why not?
> 	return sprintf...