Messages in this thread | | | From | Dave Peterson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code | Date | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:46:12 -0800 |
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On Thursday 09 March 2006 23:36, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > ok so this is actually a per pci device property! > I would suggest moving this property to the pci device itself, not doing > it inside an edac directory. > > by doing that you get the advantage that 1) it's a more logical place, > and 2) users can do it even for 1 of 2 cards, if they have 2 cards of > the same make and 3) you can use the generic kernel quirk interface for > this and 4) drivers can in principle control this for their hardware in > complex cases > > I understand that on a PC, EDAC is the only user. but ppc has a similar > mechanism I suspect, and they more than likely would be able to share > this property....
I'd be curious to hear people's opinions on the following idea: move the PCI bus parity error checking functionality from EDAC to the PCI subsystem. - 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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