Re: [tip:x86/debug] therm_throt.c: Trival printk message fix for aunsuitable abbreviation of 'thermal'

[Jean Delvare]

6 people and 2 mailing lists Cc'd for a one-line trivial patch??

On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 13:06:45 GMT, tip-bot for Jin Dongming wrote:
> Commit-ID:  6981fe03b2055685fb6da40f54518bc6baf2b751
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/6981fe03b2055685fb6da40f54518bc6baf2b751
> Author:     Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:13:33 +0900
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 14:39:15 +0200
> 
> therm_throt.c: Trival printk message fix for a unsuitable abbreviation of 'thermal'

Typo: trivial.

> 
> In unexpected_thermal_interrupt(), "LVT TMR interrupt" is used
> in error message.
> 
> I don't think TMR is a suitable abbreviation for thermal.
>   1.TMR has been used in IA32 Architectures Software Developer's
>     Manual, and is the abbreviation for Trigger Mode Register.
>   2.There is not an standard abbreviation "TMR" defined for thermal
>     in IA32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual.
>   3.Though we could understand it as Thermal Monitor Register, it is
>     easy to be misunderstood as a *TIMER* interrupt also.
> 
> I think this patch will fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Brown
> Cc: Len <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

Something's fishy here.

> Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Mailing lists shouldn't be included in Cc headers.

> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This should read:

Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> LKML-Reference: <4C7C492D.5020704@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> index c2a8b26..1d0f743 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static void intel_thermal_interrupt(void)
>  
>  static void unexpected_thermal_interrupt(void)
>  {
> -	printk(KERN_ERR "CPU%d: Unexpected LVT TMR interrupt!\n",
> +	printk(KERN_ERR "CPU%d: Unexpected LVT thermal interrupt!\n",
>  			smp_processor_id());
>  	add_taint(TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK);
>  }


-- 
Jean Delvare
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