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Date:   Mon, 02 Oct 2023 06:54:56 -0700
From:   srinivas pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>, markgross@...nel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] platform/x86: ISST : Check major minor version

On Mon, 2023-10-02 at 16:49 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, srinivas pandruvada wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2023-09-29 at 17:28 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2023, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Parse major and minor version number from the version field. If
> > > > there
> > > > is a mismatch for major version, exit from further processing
> > > > for
> > > > that
> > > > domain.
> > > > 
> > > > If there is mismatch in minor version, driver continue to
> > > > process
> > > > with
> > > > an error message.
> > > 
> > > This sentence sounds odd.
> > What is the suggestion here?
> 
> These things sound wrong: It should be "continues"
OK

>  but I also find "to 
> process" odd when lacking what it processes.

Further processing means, whatever this driver is supposed to do. You
don't want to fully explain again what this driver is doing.


> 

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