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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/syscalls: add in missing white space in error message text
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:35:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160913183551.GA32416@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160912094333.4a8dd78b@gandalf.local.home>


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 12:41:27 +0100
> Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> > 
> > pr_info message spans two lines and the literal string is missing
> > a white space between words. Add the white space.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> > index b2b6efc..79d8752 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> > @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ static int perf_sysenter_enable(struct trace_event_call *call)
> >  	if (!sys_perf_refcount_enter)
> >  		ret = register_trace_sys_enter(perf_syscall_enter, NULL);
> >  	if (ret) {
> > -		pr_info("event trace: Could not activate"
> > +		pr_info("event trace: Could not activate "
> >  				"syscall entry trace point");
> 
> Actually, the better fix is to make this one line. The 80 character
> limit is not applicable when it cuts strings in half, especially when
> it causes bugs like this.
> 
> Also, this should go through trivial (with an ack from us).

Agreed that user visible strings should be on a single line. With that change:

  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-13 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-12 11:41 [PATCH] tracing/syscalls: add in missing white space in error message text Colin King
2016-09-12 13:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-09-13 18:35   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-09-12 17:34 ` Joe Perches

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