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Date:   Sat, 23 Dec 2017 09:19:34 +0800
From:   Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
To:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/trace: fix printk format in inet_sock_set_state

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Sergei Shtylyov
> <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> On 12/22/2017 06:37 PM, Yafang Shao wrote:
>>
>>> There's a space character missed in the printk messages.
>>> This error should be prevented with checkscript.pl, but it couldn't caught
>>
>>                                                                      ^ be?
>
> It is checkpatch.pl.
>
>>
>>> by running with "checkscript.pl -f xxxx.patch", that's what I had run
>>> before.
>>> What a carelessness.
>>
>>
>>    You generally don't need to break up the messages violating 80-column
>> limit, and checkpatch.pl should be aware of this...
>>
>
> Oh. That's right.
> It can be aware of that.
>
> I just want to make the code easy to read and limit the textwidth to
> 80 character.
>
> If the message takes two lines as bellow,
>     printk("xxx "
>                      ^ space character.
>               "yyy");
> The checkpatch.pl  could also be aware of that if the first line is
> not end with space character, but it couldn't be aware of that if run
> with "checkpatch.pl -f xxxx.patch".
>

Should we need to check that error as well when we run with
"checkpatch.pl -f" ?

>
>>> Fixes: 563e0bb0dc74("net: tracepoint: replace tcp_set_state tracepoint
>>> with
>>> inet_sock_set_state tracepoint")
>>> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> MBR, Sergei

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