linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 3/6] x86, NMI, Rename memory parity error to PCI SERR error

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Message-ID: <1284855635.32373.298.camel@yhuang-dev>
Date:	Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:20:35 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/6] x86, NMI, Rename memory parity error to PCI SERR
 error

On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 17:14 +0800, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 16.09.10 20:08:25, Huang Ying wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:18 +0800, Robert Richter wrote:
> > > On 12.09.10 22:02:06, Huang Ying wrote:
> > > > > Haven't you introduced *_MEMPAR with patch 1/6?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes. And I suggest to rename it to *_SERR in this patch to reflect the
> > > > contemporary hardware better. I think they are two steps: naming the
> > > > magic number and changing the name of constant and function.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I would rather avoid introducing a name and then immediatly
> > > renaming it again.
> > 
> > I split them into two patches because there is function named as
> > mem_parity_error already. The 1/6 names constants as *_MEMPAR to make it
> > consistent with mem_parity_error(). 3/6 rename both the constants,
> > function name and some string/comments to serr. Do you think this is
> > more clean?
> 
> If I am not wrong the only real functional change is to rip out the
> edac handler. So, just introduce the final names with your renaming in
> patch #1 (and maybe make a comment in the commit message or change
> patch order).

If I merge the 1/6 and 3/6, can you suggest a patch subject, "Add symbol
definition for NMI magic constants and rename memory parity to PCI
SERR"?

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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