Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:26:38 -0700 | From | mark gross <> | Subject | Re: Problems with EDAC coexisting with BIOS |
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:34:05PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:25:59 -0700 Gross, Mark wrote: > > > > > How about printing nothing like it used too? > > > > See attached. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mark Gross > > Hi Mark, > > This small patch will need some cleaning up: > > 1. Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com> > > 2. Try not to use attachments. If you must, then make the attachment > type be text instead of octet-stream. > > 3. No need to init to 0: > +static int force_function_unhide = 0; > > 4. Typos: > > + /* check to see if device 0 function 1 is enbaled if it isn't we > enabled; it it isn't, we > + * assume the BIOS has reserved it for a reason and is expecting > + * exclusive access, we take care to not violate that assumption and > not to violate > + * fail the probe. */ > > 5. indentation, typos, and at least one trailing space: > > + if (!force_function_unhide && !(stat8 & (1 << 5))) { > + printk(KERN_INFO "contact your bios vendor to see if the " > Contact your BIOS > + "E752x error registers can be safely un-hidden\n"); > ^indent one more tab > Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Trying mutt. thanks,
diff -urN -X linux-2.6.16/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.16/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c linux-2.6.16_edac/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c --- linux-2.6.16/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c 2006-03-19 21:53:29.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.16_edac/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c 2006-04-26 08:36:25.000000000 -0700 @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include "edac_mc.h" +static int force_function_unhide; #ifndef PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_7520_0 #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_7520_0 0x3590 @@ -755,8 +756,16 @@ debugf0("MC: " __FILE__ ": %s(): mci\n", __func__); debugf0("Starting Probe1\n"); - /* enable device 0 function 1 */ + /* check to see if device 0 function 1 is enbaled; if it isn't, we + * assume the BIOS has reserved it for a reason and is expecting + * exclusive access, we take care not to violate that assumption and + * fail the probe. */ pci_read_config_byte(pdev, E752X_DEVPRES1, &stat8); + if (!force_function_unhide && !(stat8 & (1 << 5))) { + printk(KERN_INFO "Contact your BIOS vendor to see if the " + "E752x error registers can be safely un-hidden\n"); + goto fail; + } stat8 |= (1 << 5); pci_write_config_byte(pdev, E752X_DEVPRES1, stat8); @@ -1069,3 +1078,8 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Linux Networx (http://lnxi.com) Tom Zimmerman\n"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MC support for Intel e752x memory controllers"); + +module_param(force_function_unhide, int, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_function_unhide, "if BIOS sets Dev0:Fun1 up as hidden:" +" 1=force unhide and hope BIOS doesn't fight driver for Dev0:Fun1 access"); + - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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