Re: [RFC PATCH v2 32/35] ACPI: add support to register CPUs based on the _STA enabled bit

From: Russell King (Oracle)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2023 - 05:57:00 EST


On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 02:46:22PM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The message needs to be split up into multiple lines to make ./scripts/checkpatch.pl
> happy:
>
> pr_err_once(FW_BUG "CPU %u is online, but described "
> "as not present or disabled!\n", pr->id);

No. checkpatch is wrong on this point. Splitting the message like this
hurts debuggability, because the message can no longer be grepped for.

What James has done is perfectly fine.

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