Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH] treewide: Cleanup continuations and removelogging message whitespace

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 12:34:53 EST


On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:48:10 +0800 Harry Wei wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 08:22:30AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:38:19 -0700 Joe Perches wrote:
> >
> > > Using C line continuation inside format strings is error prone.
> > > Clean up the unintended whitespace introduced by misuse of \.
> > > Neaten correctly used line continations as well for consistency.
> > >
> > > drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c has these errors as well,
> > > but arcmsr needs a lot more work and the driver should likely be
> > > moved to staging instead.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > Joe,
> > Is there a decent fix for this warning in linux-next:
> >
> > drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:535: warning: zero-length gnu_printf format string
> Hi Randy & Joe,
> I have seen the drivers/tty/n_gsm.c.
> From line 529 to line 540 in drivers/tty/n_gsm.c like following.
>
> 529 static void hex_packet(const unsigned char *p, int len)
> 530 {
> 531 int i;
> 532 for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
> 533 if (i && (i % 16) == 0) {
> 534 pr_cont("\n");
> 535 pr_debug("");
> 536 }
> 537 pr_cont("%02X ", *p++);
> 538 }
> 539 pr_cont("\n");
> 540 }
>
> Should we need the line 535? If true, i wanna the function of
> 'pr_debug("");'

Hi Harry,

Joe sent a different patch for this warning message.

thanks,
---
~Randy
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