linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/13] edac: move dimm properties to struct memset

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Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:10:37 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] edac: move dimm properties to struct memset_info

Please don't call it 'memset_info' - this is misleading beyond belief.

Hmm, what struct memset_info - where the hell is this? It is nowhere to
be seen in the patches following that one too, WTF?

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:45:35PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> On systems based on chip select rows, all channels need to use memories
> with the same properties, otherwise the memories on channels A and B
> won't be recognized.
> 
> However, such assumption is not true for all types of memory
> controllers.
> 
> Controllers for FB-DIMM's don't have such requirements.
> 
> Also, modern Intel controllers seem to be capable of handling such
> differences.
> 
> So, we need to get rid of storing the DIMM information into a per-csrow
> data, storing it, instead at the right place.
> 
> The first step is to move grain, mtype, dtype and edac_mode to the
> per-dimm struct.

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