linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] EDAC: add EDAC driver for DMC520

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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:31:47 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Lei Wang <leiwang_git@...look.com>
Cc:     "james.morse@....com" <james.morse@....com>,
        "robh+dt@...nel.org" <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "mark.rutland@....com" <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "mchehab@...nel.org" <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "sashal@...nel.org" <sashal@...nel.org>,
        "hangl@...rosoft.com" <hangl@...rosoft.com>,
        "lewan@...rosoft.com" <lewan@...rosoft.com>,
        "ruizhao@...rosoft.com" <ruizhao@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] EDAC: add EDAC driver for DMC520

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 01:05:02AM +0000, Lei Wang wrote:
> Added some more comments for the file:
> 
> /*
>   * dmc520_edac.c, EDAC driver for DMC-520 memory controller
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Filename is redundant.

> These comments tell how to potentially expand the driver functions to 
> support more interrupts besides what are already here.

I can read that - the question is why are they there and for whom? For
your future colleagues who'll take over this driver or what is those
comments' purpose?

> As above comments, this comment is to guide potential future adding to 
> this driver to support other interrupts.

See question above.

> After edac_mc_alloc(), if succeeds, the above code updates dmc520_edac 
> struct data. If moving edac_mc_alloc as suggested, I will need to use 
> local variables to store the data,

Yes, do that pls.

> Do you mean having an array to keep all the irq_id, and then only 
> devm_request_irq on them if all of the platform_get_irq are success?

No, move it before edac_mc_alloc().

In general, do *all* initialization of your hardware first and only
then, when it succeeds, allocate the EDAC structures.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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