Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] trace: Remove trailing newline in events

[John Snow]

On 9/16/19 12:40 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/16/19 6:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 9/16/19 4:51 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> While the tracing frawework does not forbid trailing newline in
>>
>> framework
>>
>>> events format string, using them lead to confuse output.
>>> It is the responsibility of the backend to properly end an event
>>> line.
>>
>> Why just trailing newline? Should we not forbid ALL use of newline in a
>> trace message?
> 
> I thought about it and forgot to add a comment when respining.
> Yes, I think this is the right thing to enforce.
> However it requires more cleanup, affecting more subsystems, so I'd
> rather keep it for a follow-up series.

What's the problem with using multi-line trace statements?
Does it interfere with non-printf backends?

(I think I intentionally use these for AHCI in a few places.)

--js