linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 13/24] EDAC, ghes: Add support for legacy API counters

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Message-ID: <20190816095559.GL18980@zn.tnic>
Date:   Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:55:59 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>
Cc:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/24] EDAC, ghes: Add support for legacy API counters

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 03:09:22PM +0000, Robert Richter wrote:
> The ghes driver is not able yet to count legacy API counters in sysfs,
> e.g.:
> 
>  /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow2/ce_count
>  /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow2/ch0_ce_count
>  /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow2/ch1_ce_count
> 
> Make counting csrows/channels generic so that the ghes driver can use
> it too.

What for?

ghes_edac enumerates the DIMMs from SMBIOS - it doesn't need chip
selects and ranks. Those are used when you can't count the DIMMs
properly...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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