linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/21] amd64

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Message-ID: <20090428195813.GA4474@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:58:13 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/21] amd64_edac: EDAC module for AMD64

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:34:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> (cc Doug.  He was omitted from the [0/n] email.  Please be careul about
> that)
> 
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:06:12 +0200
> Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:58:52AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:05:52PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > > Hi Andrew,
> > > > hi Greg,
> > > > 
> > > > I think you've already heard about this driver, so here is a first
> > > > upstream submission request. It is quite sizable but partly the reason
> > > > for it is that it handles ECC detection and reporting for all AMD
> > > > K8, F10h and F11h families. It also implements DRAM error injection
> > > > functionality, failing DIMM module detection and some other fun stuff
> > > > found on F10h and later CPUs.
> > > > 
> > > > We've been doing testing/bugfixing/scrubbing here for some time, have
> > > > converted it to using kernel facilities and basically removed some slack
> > > > from it like glue code due to it being maintained out-of-tree. Please
> > > > take a look and let us know of any objections/comments you might have so
> > > > that we could tackle them on time.
> > > 
> > > At first glance, it looks sane to me.
> > > 
> > > Want me to put it in my driver tree so it can show up in -next?  Or is
> > > there some other tree you want to use?
> > 
> > -next should be just fine, let the code see some more testing :).
> 
> I suspect we will need another iteration because of the rdmsr/wrmsr
> thing.
> 
> I normally merge EDAC patches via -mm but there will be little overlap
> with a new driver such as this and I still haven't got my junk into
> linux-next yet.  So whatever.

Ok, you can take them, I have enough patches in my tree :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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