linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] EDAC: add edac_check_mc

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Message-ID: <20170805054451.GE23214@nazgul.tnic>
Date:   Sat, 5 Aug 2017 07:44:51 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@....com>
Cc:     "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>,
        "mchehab@...nel.org" <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "tony.luck@...el.com" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "rjw@...ysocki.net" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] EDAC: add edac_check_mc_owner() to check MC owner

On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 09:35:05PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> 1 means the caller's init function can continue its initialization --
> such conditions are free or owned by itself.

Make that:

	edac_get_owner(void)

to return the owner string or NULL if there's no owner.

The caller can then do the string checking and do strncmp() to limit the
string length being checked.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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