[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] maint: avoid unwanted newline at end of diagnostic

[Jiri Denemark]

> While I was in the virtual vicinity,
> Jiri mentioned the possibility of detecting one more minor
> formatting problem: the stray newline at the end of a diagnostic.
> Here are two corrections and the heuristic that caught them
> (and that will prevent introduction of some new ones -- but not if the
> end of the message is more than 2 lines after the function name).
> Currently there are no false positives.
> 
> From 122b1e31fb33c092a53802b56a0f2f5586c95bd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:12:17 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] maint: remove unwanted newline at end of diagnostic
> 
> * src/xen/xend_internal.c (xenDaemonDomainDefineXML): Remove \n.
> * src/network/bridge_driver.c (networkAddMasqueradingIptablesRules):
> Likewise.

> From 532672f3a0c53213609dab49df2e7efcaf0eb594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:13:41 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] maint: prohibit newline at end of diagnostic
> 
> * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_newline_at_end_of_diagnostic): New rule.
> Idea proposed by Jiri Denemark.

ACK to both patches.

While the syntax check implementation is not perfect, it's good enough for now
and can be enhanced if there is a desperate need for that.

Jirka