[lm-sensors] [PATCH 04/10] drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c: Fix continuation line formats

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 08:56 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c b/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c
> > index d47b4c9..e6078c9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/vt8231.c
> > @@ -948,8 +948,7 @@ static int __devinit vt8231_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
> >  
> >  	address = val & ~(VT8231_EXTENT - 1);
> >  	if (address == 0) {
> > -		dev_err(&dev->dev, "base address not set -\
> > -				 upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr\n");
> > +		dev_err(&dev->dev, "base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr\n");
> >  		return -ENODEV;
> >  	}
> >  
> 
> Good catch, and thanks for the fix. But now we have an overlong line,
> which checkpatch will complain about. So I would prefer if you'd fix
> the problem by replacing the \ by a pair of ".

That depends on what version of checkpatch you're using.

There's one with a pr_<level> and dev_<level> exemption
to the long line check.