Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Add a warning for log messages that don't end in a new line

[Julia Lawall]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Julia Lawall wrote:

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> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
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> > On Sun, 2017-11-26 at 19:17 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > I just assume that a printk that has no KERN_ is adding a
> > > newline, which is my understanding of Joe's comment.
> >
> > More precisely:
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> > Any printk without an initial KERN_CONT prepends a newline
> > if the last printk content char emitted that is not part
> > of a printk timestamp/header was not a newline.
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> Ah, I misunderstood.  I thought it was any printk that has no KERN
> indicator at all.  That I can fix.

Although I guess that in that case the whole exercise is pointless?
Because every print will at runtime be followed by another print, which
will add either the newline or a continuation.

julia