linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/kallsyms.c Make the comment up-to-date with current implementation

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2022 22:27:11 +0900
From:   Yuma Ueda <cyan@...0a1e9.dev>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, keescook@...omium.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, ojeda@...nel.org, boqun.feng@...il.com,
        masahiroy@...nel.org, samitolvanen@...gle.com, ytcoode@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/kallsyms.c Make the comment up-to-date with
 current implementation

Thank you for your comment.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 09:04:22PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 10:26 PM Yuma Ueda <cyan@...0a1e9.dev> wrote:
> >
> > The comment in scripts/kallsyms.c describing the usage of
> > scripts/kallsyms does not reflect the latest implementation.
> > Fix the comment to be up-to-date with the current implementation.
> 
> It may be a good idea to say in the commit message that this is now
> equivalent to what the `usage()` function prints (and possibly change
> `scripts/kallsyms` to just `kallsyms` to make it exactly equal).

I'll change it that way for both.

> In fact, we could replace the comment with "See usage() function" to
> avoid further desyncs... But that is a different patch :)
> 

I don't know if the comment should just be changed to "See usage() function",
and as you said, that should be done in a different patch,
so for now I will send a patch that fixes the issues you mentioned.

> Also, I am not sure we want to use tabs on the comment -- the rest of
> it uses spaces.

OK, I'll change tabs into spaces.

> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel

I'll send a new version of the patch later.

Regards,

Yuma Ueda