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

From: Logan Gunthorpe
Date: Mon Nov 27 2017 - 12:33:13 EST


This is a valid false positive that I also missed. However, it can
actually be very easily ignored by checking if the format string ends in
%pV. There were about 100 cases in my results that match this.

No, it can't be done that way.

$ git grep '%pV\\n"' | wc -l
56
$ git grep '%pV"' | wc -l
146

AFAIK: all of the above are correct as-is.

Yes, I'm saying they are correct too. So the script would very easily notice this and not produce a warning. The first grep you did already weren't false positives because they ended in \\n and wouldn't have produced a warning. A very simple change to my patch ignores the second group. So what's wrong here?

Logan