From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: festevam@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Improve warning message for "needless if" case
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:40:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413909608.12828.5.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413902024-2932-1-git-send-email-fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 12:33 -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Break the sentence so that it looks better:
>
> WARNING: debugfs_remove(NULL) is safe. This check is probably not required
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -4446,7 +4446,7 @@ sub process {
> my $expr = '\s*\(\s*' . quotemeta($1) . '\s*\)\s*;';
> if ($line =~ /\b(kfree|usb_free_urb|debugfs_remove(?:_recursive)?)$expr/) {
> WARN('NEEDLESS_IF',
> - "$1(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
> + "$1(NULL) is safe. This check is probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
> }
> }
>
Mixing sentences with and without periods is jarring.
I'd prefer a comma or a dash.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-21 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-21 14:33 Fabio Estevam
2014-10-21 16:40 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-10-21 16:44 ` Fabio Estevam
2014-10-21 16:51 ` Joe Perches
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