Re: [PULL 0/4] Trivial branch patches

[Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 16:56:11 +0100
Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> wrote:

> Greg, Dave,
> 
> could you fix that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Laurent
> 
> Le 05/11/2019 à 16:48, no-reply@patchew.org a écrit :
> > Patchew URL: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20191105144247.10301-1-laurent@vivier.eu/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This series seems to have some coding style problems. See output below for
> > more information:
> > 
> > Subject: [PULL 0/4] Trivial branch patches
> > Type: series
> > Message-id: 20191105144247.10301-1-laurent@vivier.eu
> > 
> > === TEST SCRIPT BEGIN ===
> > #!/bin/bash
> > git rev-parse base > /dev/null || exit 0
> > git config --local diff.renamelimit 0
> > git config --local diff.renames True
> > git config --local diff.algorithm histogram
> > ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --mailback base..
> > === TEST SCRIPT END ===
> > 
> > Switched to a new branch 'test'
> > 85ac453 global: Squash 'the the'
> > 9dd7da4 qom: Fix error message in object_class_property_add()
> > 2b76b45 hw/misc/grlib_ahb_apb_pnp: Fix 8-bit accesses
> > bddcfd9 hw/misc/grlib_ahb_apb_pnp: Avoid crash when writing to PnP registers
> > 
> > === OUTPUT BEGIN ===
> > 1/4 Checking commit bddcfd9b6b24 (hw/misc/grlib_ahb_apb_pnp: Avoid crash when writing to PnP registers)
> > 2/4 Checking commit 2b76b451f9b7 (hw/misc/grlib_ahb_apb_pnp: Fix 8-bit accesses)
> > 3/4 Checking commit 9dd7da421bfb (qom: Fix error message in object_class_property_add())
> > WARNING: line over 80 characters
> > #31: FILE: qom/object.c:1109:
> > +        error_setg(errp, "attempt to add duplicate property '%s' to object (type '%s')",
> > 
> > WARNING: line over 80 characters
> > #43: FILE: qom/object.c:1141:
> > +        error_setg(errp, "attempt to add duplicate property '%s' to class (type '%s')",
> > 

As mentioned in the changelog, this is deliberate. AFAIK better grep-ability
has precedence over the 80 characters rule when it comes to error messages.
Maybe we should teach checkpatch about that ?

Cheers,

--
Greg

> > total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 22 lines checked
> > 
> > Patch 3/4 has style problems, please review.  If any of these errors
> > are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
> > CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
> > 4/4 Checking commit 85ac453d1520 (global: Squash 'the the')
> > ERROR: do not use C99 // comments
> > #26: FILE: disas/libvixl/vixl/invalset.h:105:
> > +  // Note that this does not mean the backing storage is empty: it can still
> > 
> > total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 56 lines checked
> > 
> > Patch 4/4 has style problems, please review.  If any of these errors
> > are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
> > CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
> > 
> > === OUTPUT END ===
> > 
> > Test command exited with code: 1
> > 
> > 
> > The full log is available at
> > http://patchew.org/logs/20191105144247.10301-1-laurent@vivier.eu/testing.checkpatch/?type=message.
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