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Message-ID: <95da51df3cadbb05f721f2e5b8d59f8d@milecki.pl>
Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:42:11 +0200
From:   Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
To:     Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Cc:     Markus Mayer <code@...yer.net>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Broadcom Kernel List <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        Power Management List <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Device Tree List <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Markus Mayer <mmayer@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] thermal: add brcmstb AVS TMON driver

On 2017-08-15 08:08, Zhang Rui wrote:
>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/broadcom/Kconfig
>> b/drivers/thermal/broadcom/Kconfig
>> index 42c098e..c106a15 100644
>> --- a/drivers/thermal/broadcom/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/broadcom/Kconfig
>> @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ config BCM2835_THERMAL
>>  	help
>>  	  Support for thermal sensors on Broadcom bcm2835 SoCs.
>>  
>> +config BRCMSTB_THERMAL
>> +	tristate "Broadcom STB AVS TMON thermal driver"
>> +	depends on ARCH_BRCMSTB || COMPILE_TEST
>> +	help
>> +	  Enable this driver if you have a Broadcom STB SoC and
>> would like
>> +	  thermal framework support.
>> +
> 
> I don't understand why I got the following checkpatch warning
> 
> WARNING: please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol
> fully
> #73: FILE: drivers/thermal/broadcom/Kconfig:9:
> +config BRCMSTB_THERMAL
> 
> I didn't see this for other Kconfig changes.

It's because your help message is only 2 lines long (instead of 3).

Some (many?) maintainers aren't pedantic about that, a common sense 
should
be applied ;)