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Commit 6f76b6fc authored by Josh Triplett's avatar Josh Triplett Committed by Linus Torvalds
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CodingStyle: Document the exception of not splitting user-visible strings, for grepping

Patch reviewers now recommend not splitting long user-visible strings,
such as printk messages, even if they exceed 80 columns.  This avoids
breaking grep.  However, that recommendation did not actually appear
anywhere in Documentation/CodingStyle.

See, for example, the thread at
  http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c1312215262.11635.15.camel%40Joe%2dLaptop%3e



Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1117f72e
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