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From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] ethtool: Implement ethtool_puts()
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 19:22:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUP23ic6adijQ8U9@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231102-ethtool_puts_impl-v4-1-14e1e9278496@google.com>

On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 06:55:42PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> +/**
> + * ethtool_puts - Write string to ethtool string data
> + * @data: Pointer to a pointer to the start of string to update
> + * @str: String to write
> + *
> + * Write string to *data. Update *data to point at start of
> + * next string.

A minor nit...

Sorry to jump in a bit late in this, but... concerning the use of "puts"
the userspace stdio version adds a trailing newline. Thus, to avoid any
confusion, I think the kerneldoc for this should explicitly state that
this does not add a newline.

 * Write string to *data without a trailing newline. Update *data to
 * point at the start of the next string.

This shouldn't be an issue, but it makes the behaviour of it plainly
obvious to the reader.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-02 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-02 18:55 [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] ethtool: Add ethtool_puts() Justin Stitt
2023-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] ethtool: Implement ethtool_puts() Justin Stitt
2023-11-02 19:22   ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2023-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] checkpatch: add ethtool_sprintf rules Justin Stitt
2023-11-02 18:55 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/3] net: Convert some ethtool_sprintf() to ethtool_puts() Justin Stitt
2023-11-02 19:15   ` Kiyanovski, Arthur
2023-11-02 19:55     ` Andrew Lunn

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