Re: [GIT PULL] MCE recovery changes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jan 26 2012 - 13:29:03 EST



* Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It worked perfectly.
>
> Hurrah!
>
> > Pulled, thanks!
>
> Thank you.
>
> > One thing i noticed was the magic constant 0x134:
> >
> > +               SER, MASK(MCI_STATUS_OVER|MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|MCACOD, MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|0x0134),
> >
> > don't we want that defined a bit more clearly?
>
> Stylistically it is compatible with the existing:
> MASK(MCI_STATUS_OVER|MCI_UC_SAR|0xfff0, MCI_UC_S|0x00c0)
> and
> MASK(MCI_STATUS_OVER|MCI_UC_SAR|MCACOD, MCI_UC_S|0x017a)
>
> ... but that's just a sign that they need some love too :-)
>
> I'll see what I can do - but meaningful names will clearly be
> longer than the hex constants that they replace - and I'm
> already pushing line length limits here, so it will need more
> than a trivial restructure.

Well, one option is to let the line grow - for such things it's
ok up to 100 cols or so.

Thanks,

Ingo
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