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Message-ID: <878ra8mgwr.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:52:52 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct
 bitmap function

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> writes:

> The parser of the CPU lists is bitmap_parselist() that supports
> special notations with the plain numbers. bitmap_parse() never
> supported those and will fail in case one will try it.
>
> Fixes: b18def121f07 ("bitmap_parse: Support 'all' semantics")
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
> index 073f73880edf..102937bc8443 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ The special case-tolerant group name "all" has a meaning of selecting all CPUs,
>  so that "nohz_full=all" is the equivalent of "nohz_full=0-N".
>  
>  The semantics of "N" and "all" is supported on a level of bitmaps and holds for
> -all users of bitmap_parse().
> +all users of bitmap_parselist().
>  

Applied, thanks.

jon

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