linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] aerdrv: Move cper_print

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Date:	Thu, 9 May 2013 19:10:36 +0000
From:	"Ortiz, Lance E" <lance.oritz@...com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] aerdrv: Move cper_print_pcie() out of interrupt context

Rafael,  

Thanks for your feedback.

> The way the changes are described here isn't particularly clear to me.

I will try to make it a little more clear.

> Also, since aer_recover_work_func() is going to be the only existing
> caller of
> cper_print_aer() after this change, as far as I can say, and it doesn't
> use the
> function's first argument, that argument should be dropped entirely.

The truth is, the function cper_print_aer() really needs to be re-written so it is consistent with aer_print_error() in how it outputs information.  Right now, the output is formatted very differently.  I was planning on doing that at a later date, but fix the warning now.  I might add a TODO comment in the code for this.

The reason I did not remove the argument in cper_print_aer() is because 'prefix' is used in the call to cper_print_bits(), and I passed through an empty string to make sure that function worked correctly.  I can try to clean it up.

Lance