[PATCH v2 1/7] um: Add missing trailing newline to help messages

Tiwei Bie tiwei.bie at linux.dev
Tue Aug 26 17:56:57 PDT 2025


From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.btw at antgroup.com>

Some help messages are missing a trailing newline. They should
end with two newlines, but only one is present. Add the missing
newline to make the --help output more readable.

Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.btw at antgroup.com>
---
 arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c      | 2 +-
 arch/um/kernel/dtb.c            | 2 +-
 arch/um/kernel/time.c           | 5 +++--
 arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
index 4de6613e7468..01bbd39722c0 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ __uml_help(ubd_setup,
 "    useful when a unique number should be given to the device. Note when\n"
 "    specifying a label, the filename2 must be also presented. It can be\n"
 "    an empty string, in which case the backing file is not used:\n"
-"       ubd0=File,,Serial\n"
+"       ubd0=File,,Serial\n\n"
 );
 
 static int udb_setup(char *str)
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/dtb.c b/arch/um/kernel/dtb.c
index 15c342426489..47cd3d869fb2 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/dtb.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/dtb.c
@@ -38,5 +38,5 @@ static int __init uml_dtb_setup(char *line, int *add)
 
 __uml_setup("dtb=", uml_dtb_setup,
 "dtb=<file>\n"
-"    Boot the kernel with the devicetree blob from the specified file.\n"
+"    Boot the kernel with the devicetree blob from the specified file.\n\n"
 );
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/time.c b/arch/um/kernel/time.c
index ae0fa2173778..cce5e3371e9f 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/time.c
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ __uml_help(setup_time_travel,
 "have more than one system simultaneously be on simulated time. The virtio\n"
 "driver code in UML knows about this so you can also simulate networks and\n"
 "devices using it, assuming the device has the right capabilities.\n"
-"The optional ID is a 64-bit integer that's sent to the central scheduler.\n");
+"The optional ID is a 64-bit integer that's sent to the central scheduler.\n\n");
 
 static int setup_time_travel_start(char *str)
 {
@@ -1023,7 +1023,8 @@ __setup("time-travel-start=", setup_time_travel_start);
 __uml_help(setup_time_travel_start,
 "time-travel-start=<nanoseconds>\n"
 "Configure the UML instance's wall clock to start at this value rather than\n"
-"the host's wall clock at the time of UML boot.\n");
+"the host's wall clock at the time of UML boot.\n\n");
+
 static struct kobject *bc_time_kobject;
 
 static ssize_t bc_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
index 78f48fa9db8b..0bc10cd4cbed 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ __uml_setup("noreboot", noreboot_cmd_param,
 "noreboot\n"
 "    Rather than rebooting, exit always, akin to QEMU's -no-reboot option.\n"
 "    This is useful if you're using CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT in order to catch\n"
-"    crashes in CI\n");
+"    crashes in CI\n\n");
 
 void reboot_skas(void)
 {
-- 
2.34.1




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