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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:28:06 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Add a warning for log messages that don't end in a new line
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To: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>

On Mon, 2017-11-27 at 10:20 -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On 27/11/17 01:28 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > checkpatch already reports printks without KERN_<level>
> > 
> > # printk should use KERN_* levels
> > 		if ($line =~ /\bprintk\s*\(\s*(?!KERN_[A-Z]+\b)/) {
> > 			WARN("PRINTK_WITHOUT_KERN_LEVEL",
> > 			     "printk() should include KERN_<LEVEL> facility level\n" . $herecurr);
> > 		}
> > 
> 
> Yes, but that kind of misses the mark in a similar way a new line 
> warning misses the mark. Consider:

It doesn't miss any mark.  It simply informs.
Correctness when fixing are a different world of problems.