Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] cpupower-idle-info.1: fix short option names

From: Shuah Khan

Date: Mon Mar 23 2026 - 15:08:46 EST


On 3/12/26 04:20, Roberto Ricci wrote:
The cpupower-idle-info(1) man page describes '-f' as the short form of
the '--silent' option and '-e' as the short form of the '--proc' option.
But they are not correct:

$ cpupower idle-info -f
idle-info: invalid option -- 'f'
invalid or unknown argument
$ cpupower idle-info -e
idle-info: invalid option -- 'e'
invalid or unknown argument

The short form of '--silent' is actually '-s' and the short form of
'--proc' is actually 'o':

cpuidle-info.c:
{"silent", no_argument, NULL, 's'},
{"proc", no_argument, NULL, 'o'},

Fixes e7d85a934182d5bde1eea865169fbf2e0637a3ed ("cpupower: Add cpupower-idle-info manpage")

There is no need t for Fixes tag in any of these patches.
Fixes tag is used when you fix a bug in code. Using Fixes
for every single patch adds lot of churn for stable releases.

Remove Fixes tag from all these 4 patches and run checkpatch
before sending patches to me adding version information.

Incorrect fixes style in all of these 4 patches. Running checkpatch
helps you catch these error before I see them.

ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'commit e7d85a934182 ("cpupower: Add cpupower-idle-info manpage")'
#86:



Signed-off-by: Roberto Ricci <io@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Adding changes in since patch v1 makes reviewers job easier.
We can easily our comments are addressed or not.


tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-idle-info.1 | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-idle-info.1 b/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-idle-info.1
index 20b6345c53ad..b2f92aba5f5b 100644
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-idle-info.1
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-idle-info.1
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ A tool which prints out per cpu idle information helpful to developers and inter
.SH "OPTIONS"
.LP
.TP
-\fB\-f\fR \fB\-\-silent\fR
+\fB\-s\fR \fB\-\-silent\fR
Only print a summary of all available C-states in the system.
.TP
-\fB\-e\fR \fB\-\-proc\fR
+\fB\-o\fR \fB\-\-proc\fR
deprecated.
Prints out idle information in old /proc/acpi/processor/*/power format. This
interface has been removed from the kernel for quite some time, do not let

thanks,
-- Shuah