RE: [PATCH] pinctrl: amd: Pick some different unicode symbols

From: Limonciello, Mario
Date: Fri Aug 26 2022 - 09:29:32 EST


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 08:25
> To: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Limonciello, Mario <Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxx>; Natikar, Basavaraj
> <Basavaraj.Natikar@xxxxxxx>; S-k, Shyam-sundar <Shyam-sundar.S-
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: amd: Pick some different unicode symbols
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 3:51 PM David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I hope I'm never the person you tries to write a test script
> > to check the output....
> > Or describe them to someone else...
>
> I think these are the people doing those scripts at AMD.

For the types of things this debugfs file is used for, it's typically a human inspection.

That is comparing the net result of what is programmed by firmware and interpreted
by the kernel against a schematic or document. It doesn’t really lend well to scripts, but does
to fitting all the information on a single screen in a concise format.

>
> > The best 'fix' is to remove all the stupid characters.
>
> I let the people using the debugfs decide :P
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij