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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl.c: Replace fprintf(stderr) with error_report()
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:25:46 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151027192546.GK4180@thinpad.lan.raisama.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151027073038.GA3927@hawk.localdomain>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 08:30:38AM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> In addition to Markus' and Eric's comments, I think we should
> 
> 1. make sure the first word's case is correct. Lowercase for phrases,
>    uppercase for sentences and proper nouns.

I think I can understand this in the more obvious cases, but I don't
know how I could convert the following instance:

[...]
> >              case QEMU_OPTION_no_kvm_pit: {
> > -                fprintf(stderr, "Warning: KVM PIT can no longer be disabled "
> > -                                "separately.\n");
> > +                error_report("Warning: KVM PIT can no longer be disabled "
> > +                             "separately.");
> 
> Could change this from a sentence into a phrase. Also, we need a consistent
> 'warning' prefix. Should we make a error_report_warn variant?

Converting that sentence to a phrase is beyond my non-native english
speaker skills. Do you have any suggestions? :)

-- 
Eduardo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-26 17:13 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vl.c: Replace fprintf(stderr) with error_report() Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-26 17:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-10-26 18:03   ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-26 18:21   ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-28 18:12     ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-29  6:15       ` Markus Armbruster
2015-10-26 19:10 ` Eric Blake
2015-10-27 17:08   ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-27  7:30 ` Andrew Jones
2015-10-27  9:53   ` Markus Armbruster
2015-10-27 19:25   ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2015-10-27 19:36     ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-10-28 13:58       ` Andrew Jones
2015-10-28 15:27         ` Laszlo Ersek

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