linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools/power turbostat: make the '-n' command line argument work in all cases

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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 11:28:12 -0400
From: David Arcari <darcari@...hat.com>
To: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/power turbostat: make the '-n' command line
 argument work in all cases


Hi,

On 5/20/24 14:57, David Arcari wrote:
> In some cases specifying the '-n' command line argument will cause
> turbostat to fail.  For instance 'turbostat -n 1' works fine; however,
> 'turbostat -n 1 -d' will fail.  This is the result of the first call
> to getopt_long_only() where "MP" is specified as the optstring.  This can
> be easily fixed by changing the optstring from "MP" to "MPn:" to remove
> ambiguity between the arguments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Arcari <darcari@...hat.com>
> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org

Is there a problem with this commit?  I don't believe it has been merged 
or otherwise replied to.

Thanks,
-DA

> ---
>   tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
> index 98256468e248..8071a3ef2a2e 100644
> --- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
> +++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
> @@ -7851,7 +7851,7 @@ void cmdline(int argc, char **argv)
>   	 * Parse some options early, because they may make other options invalid,
>   	 * like adding the MSR counter with --add and at the same time using --no-msr.
>   	 */
> -	while ((opt = getopt_long_only(argc, argv, "MP", long_options, &option_index)) != -1) {
> +	while ((opt = getopt_long_only(argc, argv, "MPn:", long_options, &option_index)) != -1) {
>   		switch (opt) {
>   		case 'M':
>   			no_msr = 1;