[PATCH v7 3/3] MTD: atmel_nand: Update driver to support Programmable Multibit ECC controller
Josh Wu
josh.wu at atmel.com
Thu May 17 02:36:16 EDT 2012
Hi, Artem
On 5/16/2012 5:40 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 11:31 +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
>>>> + dev_warn(host->dev, "Only 2048 page size is currently " \
>>>> + "supported for PMECC, rolling back to Software ECC\n");
>>> Why do you use backslashes?
>>>
>> message text should not be split across lines anyway to ease grepping
>> for the message.
> I think the consensus is that it is personal decision of the author. I
> am not trying to enforce this and I also split messages. In this case I
> was only wondering why that backslash is used? I never saw this before
> in the linux kernel.
>
oh, I add the backslash only because if without it, there should be a
warning about message is splitting into two lines.
Now I think I will just keep the text message in one line. That will
avoid any warnings. thanks.
Best Regards,
Josh Wu
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