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

Russell King (Oracle) linux at armlinux.org.uk
Tue Sep 19 02:55:27 PDT 2023


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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