Documentation: checkpatch: Add SPLIT_STRING message
Add a new message type SPLIT_STRING under the 'Indentation and Line
Breaks' subsection. Checkpatch documentation for the splitting of
quoted strings that appear in userspace, across multiple lines.
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904073621.12987-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index f0956e9..b7a1288 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
@@ -710,6 +710,12 @@
See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings
+ **SPLIT_STRING**
+ Quoted strings that appear as messages in userspace and can be
+ grepped, should not be split across multiple lines.
+
+ See: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20120203052727.GA15035@leaf/
+
**TRAILING_STATEMENTS**
Trailing statements (for example after any conditional) should be
on the next line.