From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751355AbdK0IwT (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:52:19 -0500 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:33538 "EHLO mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbdK0IwS (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:52:18 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.44,463,1505772000"; d="scan'208";a="246084896" Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:52:15 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall X-X-Sender: jll@hadrien To: Joe Perches cc: Logan Gunthorpe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Add a warning for log messages that don't end in a new line In-Reply-To: <1511771322.32426.1.camel@perches.com> Message-ID: References: <20171126054037.9743-1-logang@deltatee.com> <1511676085.20482.18.camel@perches.com> <5c0a2778-8e8f-9fbb-b13f-1d880acb949b@deltatee.com> <1511735382.20482.27.camel@perches.com> <355029d1-48f5-095e-0d99-bb726d2d56e5@deltatee.com> <86f3f594-79f7-c2ce-2cc6-f641bd6f55ae@deltatee.com> <1511771322.32426.1.camel@perches.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2017-11-26 at 23:40 -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > On 26/11/17 11:34 PM, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > It would probably be better not to mention the KERN_CONT possibility at > > > all. > > > > Oh? I don't disagree... but what are we supposed to do in these cases? > > The way v2 of my patch works it just says that there is a missing new > > line. But Joe calls that a false positive. So if we can't report that > > it's missing a new line and we can't say it looks like it needs a > > KERN_CONT, then what can we do? The case is obviously wrong in some way > > or another so we probably shouldn't just ignore it. I meant why not only suggest pr_cont? julia > > checkpatch already reports printks without KERN_ > > # printk should use KERN_* levels > if ($line =~ /\bprintk\s*\(\s*(?!KERN_[A-Z]+\b)/) { > WARN("PRINTK_WITHOUT_KERN_LEVEL", > "printk() should include KERN_ facility level\n" . $herecurr); > } > >