[PATCH v3 5/5] misc serdev: w2sg0004: add debugging code and Kconfig

H. Nikolaus Schaller hns at goldelico.com
Wed Nov 15 09:13:51 PST 2017


Hi Ladislav,

> Am 15.11.2017 um 17:42 schrieb Ladislav Michl <ladis at linux-mips.org>:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 05:29:25PM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> Hi Andreas,
>> 
>>> Am 15.11.2017 um 16:53 schrieb Andreas Färber <afaerber at suse.de>:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Am 15.11.2017 um 16:19 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller:
>>>> This allows to set CONFIG_W2SG0004_DEBUG which will
>>>> make the driver report more activities and it will turn on the
>>>> GPS module during boot while the driver assumes that it
>>>> is off. This can be used to debug the correct functioning of
>>>> the hardware. Therefore we add it as an option to the driver
>>>> because we think it is of general use (and a little tricky to
>>>> add by system testers).
>>>> 
>>>> Normally it should be off.
>>>> ---
>>> 
>>> If you want to merge this, it is lacking a Sob.
>> 
>> Whats is a "Sob" in this context (https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/SOB)?
> 
> https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Signed-Off-By

Ah, ok. Too obvious to associate :) Tnx.

I did never think about that this could be missing. And I don't know why :(

> Also please read Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

We have automated things by calling checkpatch but it somwhow failed here.

BR and thanks,
Nikolaus




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