Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt.c: Remove newline from error_report() string

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 15:30, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 18/1/24 16:17, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 18/1/24 14:16, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> error_report() strings should not include trailing newlines; remove
> >> the newline from the error we print when devices won't fit into the
> >> address space of the CPU.
> >>
> >> This commit also fixes the accidental hardcoded tabs that were in
> >> this line, since we have to touch the line anyway.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> >> ---
> >>   hw/arm/virt.c | 4 ++--
> >>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
>
> BTW there is another case:
>
> $ spatch \
>    --macro-file scripts/cocci-macro-file.h \
>    --sp-file scripts/coccinelle/err-bad-newline.cocci \
>    --keep-comments --use-gitgrep --dir .
> ./hw/arm/virt.c:1775:38:"Addressing limited to %d bits, but memory
> exceeds it by %llu bytes\n"
> ./ui/gtk.c:1094:56:"gtk: unexpected touch event type\n"
>
> We could run this some of these coccinelle scripts on CI,
> as a new job in .gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml or extending
> the check-patch job...

checkpatch catches it, if you read the output, which is
how I noticed this in the first place (I was originally
touching the line to fix the tab damage).

-- PMM