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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Nov 27 2017 - 12:42:56 EST


On Mon, 2017-11-27 at 10:35 -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On 27/11/17 10:28 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > It doesn't miss any mark. It simply informs.
> > Correctness when fixing are a different world of problems.
>
> So how come the double standard?

No double stardard. One correctly informs that a bare
printk is not acceptable.

> Having a missing new line warning
> simply informs here too.

No it has a high false positive rate and newbies
act on that by submitting bad patches.'