Re: [PATCH 1/6] RAS: ACPI: APEI: add conditional compilation to ARM error report functions

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On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 14:10:25 +0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Em Mon, 8 Jul 2024 13:32:34 +0200
> Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 01:18:10PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:  
> > > From: Daniel Ferguson <danielf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > This prevents the unnecessary inclusion of ARM specific RAS error    
> > 
> > s/This prevents/Prevent/
> > 
> > Avoid having "This patch" or "This commit" or "This does <bla>" in the commit
> > message. It is tautologically useless.
> > 
> > "Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz"
> > instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy
> > to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change
> > its behaviour."
> > 
> > From Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> >   
> > > handling routines in non-ARM platforms.    
> > 
> > Ok, this does "something". Why does it do it?
> > 
> > Otherwise it won't build on other architectures or is it going to cause code
> > bloat or why are we doing this?  
> 
> Probably a better description would be:
> 
>     RAS: ACPI: APEI: add conditional compilation to ARM error report functions
>     
>     Don't include ARM Processor specific error handling routines in 
>     non-ARM platforms, preparing it to the next patch, as arm-specific
>     kAPI symbols will be used, thus avoiding build breakages when ARM
>     is not selected.
>     
>     [mchehab: avoid unneeded ifdefs and fix coding style issues]
>     Signed-off-by: Daniel Ferguson <danielf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
With that change log seems fine to me.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> This patch itself just add conditionals to optimize out code on
> non-ARM architectures. The next one will add some ARM-specific bits
> inside ARM processor CPER trace, thus causing compilation breakages
> on non-ARM, due to arm-specific kAPI bits that will be used then.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mauro





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