[PATCH 0/5] KVM: selftests: Remove redundant newlines

Andrew Jones ajones at ventanamicro.com
Wed Dec 6 09:07:37 PST 2023


On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 06:02:42PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> This series has a lot of churn for dubious value, but I'm posting it
> anyway since I've already done the work. Each patch in the series is
> simply removing trailing newlines from format strings in TEST_* function
> callsites, since TEST_* functions append their own. The first patch
> addresses common lib and test code, the rest of the changes are split
> by arch in the remaining patches.
> 
> Figuring out which newlines to delete was done with a long, ugly
> grep regular expression[*] and then highlighting '\n' in the output
> and manually skimming to find, and then manually fix, each instance.
> I'm sure there's some AI tool that would have done everything for me,
> but this was my chance to prove I'm still as capable as AI (well,
> unless I missed some...)
> 
> [*] grep -rn . tools/testing/selftests/kvm |
>     grep -Pzo '(?s)\n[^\n]*TEST_(ASSERT|REQUIRE|FAIL)\(.*?\)\s*;' |
>     tr '\0' '\n'
> 
> 
> Andrew Jones (5):
>   KVM: selftests: Remove redundant newlines
>   KVM: selftests: aarch64: Remove redundant newlines
>   KVM: selftests: riscv: Remove redundant newlines
>   KVM: selftests: s390x: Remove redundant newlines
>   KVM: selftests: x86_64: Remove redundant newlines
>

I forgot to mention that this series is based on kvm-x86/selftests.

Thanks,
drew



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