Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: audio: add missing newline to sysfs_emit formats

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:17:04 +0300
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.outreachy,dev.linux.lists.linux-staging,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 09:15:08AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 06:49:05PM -0700, Brock Haftner wrote:
> > The sysfs_emit() function is used to format strings that are returned
> > to userspace. According to the sysfs documentation, these outputs
> > should include a newline character for visual clarity.
> > 
> > Fix the checkpatch.pl warnings by adding the missing '\n' to the
> > sysfs_emit() format strings inside several functions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Brock Haftner <[email protected]>
> 
> Please don't do this for existing code, only for new code.  There
> is a risck that user space relies on the old behavior.

We should delete this checkpatch warning really.  It could be a
sashiko rule which only applies for patches which introduce new
functions or something.

regards,
dan carpenter