linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm for v4.15

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Message-ID: <20171117171909.GA15582@wunner.de>
Date:   Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:19:09 +0100
From:   Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm for v4.15

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 08:57:53AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Nicolai Hähnle <nhaehnle@...il.com> wrote:
> To see the effects of this, I picked something at random from one of
> those huge AMD header files.
> 
> I swear. It was entirely at random, and the first thing I picked. Do this:
> 
>     git grep PCIE_UNCORR_ERR_MASK

Oh that looks familiar, it's the Uncorrectable Error Mask Register
(PCIe Base Spec r2.1 page 558).  We already have those definitions
in the tree in include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h:

      git grep PCI_ERR_UNC_


> and tell me that there isn't any room for making these things smarter.

... or deduplicate them. :-)

Lukas