linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 7/9] coresight: add support for CPU debug module

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Message-ID: <20170524001451.GA20279@leoy-ThinkPad-T440>
Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 08:14:51 +0800
From:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
To:     Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com>,
        Wei Xu <xuwei5@...ilicon.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
        David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
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        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 7/9] coresight: add support for CPU debug module

Hi Mathieu,

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:39:16AM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:

[...]

> > +static bool debug_enable;
> > +module_param_named(enable, debug_enable, bool, 0600);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable, "Knob to enable debug functionality "
> > +                "(default is 0, which means is disabled by default)");
> 
> Checkpatch complains about a quoted string split across multiple
> lines.  You can probably removes the second one since information
> about the default value is already detailed in patch 03/09.  In this
> case I suggest modifiying the description to:
> 
> "Control to enable coresight CPU debug functionality"

It's shame for checkpatch.pl warning. Although everytime I used script
before sending out patch set, should think a bit more to handle them
better. Have sent new patch set to dismiss them.

Thanks,
Leo Yan