netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/trace: fix printk format in inet_sock_set

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Date:   Sat, 23 Dec 2017 12:42:03 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.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 12/23/2017 4:10 AM, 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

> It is checkpatch.pl.

    Yes, that too. But I actually meant you missed "be" between "couldn't" and 
"caught"...

>>> 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.

    It is aware --- I'm just not sure it recognizes TP_printk() -- like it 
does recognize printk() fo that purpose.

> I just want to make the code easy to read and limit the textwidth to
> 80 character.

    Contrariwise, that's what you shouldn't do. Would simplify searching for 
the messages in the kernel source.

> 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".

    Option -f tells checkpatch.pl that it should check a source file, not a 
patch. I don't know why you use that with the patches...

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

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MBR, Sergei