linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] MCE, AMD: MCE decoding support for AMD Family 16h

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Message-ID: <1355868659.3982.3.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:10:59 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Doug Thompson <dougthompson@...ssion.com>,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MCE, AMD: MCE decoding support for AMD Family 16h

On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 15:06 -0600, Jacob Shin wrote:
> Add MCE decoding logic for AMD Family 16h processors.

More trivia:

> diff --git a/drivers/edac/mce_amd.c b/drivers/edac/mce_amd.c
[]
> @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(to_msgs);
>  const char * const ii_msgs[] = { "MEM", "RESV", "IO", "GEN" };
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ii_msgs);
>  
> +/* internal error type */
> +const char * const uu_msgs[] = { "RESV", "RESV", "HWA", "RESV" };
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uu_msgs);

Do these really need to be exported?
These don't seem to be used outside of mce_amd.

If these really need export, are these very good names?
Perhaps these should be prefixed with something?


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