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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst index f0956e9ea2d8..b7a1288e96a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst @@ -710,6 +710,12 @@ Indentation and Line Breaks 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. |