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From: "Jason J. Herne" <jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: blauwirbel@gmail.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Detect newlines in error_report and other error functions
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:49:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5672F59B.7020907@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvtdnim6.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>

On 12/14/2015 10:40 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> "Jason J. Herne" <jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> On 12/14/2015 07:47 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> "Jason J. Herne" <jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> We don't want newlines embedded in error messages. This seems to be a common
>>>> problem with new code so let's try to catch it with checkpatch.
>>>>
>>>> This will not catch cases where newlines are inserted into the middle of an
>>>> existing multi-line statement. But those cases should be rare.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>
...
>> But I will take a look at this series and see if we can do better :).
>
> Thanks!  If we can't, then I'm for taking this imperfect patch, because
> flagging some of these mistakes is better than flagging none.
>
>

I won't get a chance to get back to this before the new year. So feel 
free to push this (unless someone objects) and I'll see what I can do 
about improving it in January.
Happy holidays! :)

-- 
-- Jason J. Herne (jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-17 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-11 18:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Detect newlines in error_report and other error functions Jason J. Herne
2015-12-14 12:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-12-14 14:45   ` Jason J. Herne
2015-12-14 15:40     ` Markus Armbruster
2015-12-17 17:49       ` Jason J. Herne [this message]
2015-12-17 18:28         ` Markus Armbruster
2015-12-18 15:06           ` Markus Armbruster
2016-01-11 21:37 ` Markus Armbruster

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