Re: [PATCH] xen/panic: Fix string inconsistencies in callers of panic()

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 25/11/13 10:24, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:06 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> panic() (as well as early_panic() in arm) is inconsistently called with or
>> without a trailing newline.  This results in cases where the lower line of
>> *****s is not on its own line.
>>
>> Change panic() to always print a newline itself, and update callers not to.
>>
>> In addition, panic() was occasionally called with a leading newline, and
>> occaionally with trailing punctuation which seems rather redundant given the
>> surrounding context.  Fix up these sitiuations as well.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
>> CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
>> CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
>> CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
>> CC: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>
>> CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
>> CC: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
> I'm not entirely sure I agree with nuking the trailing full stop from
> all of the sentences, especially those which are a complete sentence.
>
> But unless others feel the same I'm not inclined to argue:
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
>
>
>

This was at the request of Keir, based on my previous patch from ages
ago which fixed up the callers without a newline at the end.

~Andrew