Re: [PATCH 01/13] edac: Create a dimm struct and move the labelsinto it

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Apr 16 2012 - 09:22:12 EST


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:44:40AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Because this will make patch 5/13 even bigger and messy. Each of those
> loops have different functions: the first one initializes the legacy API
> data structures for virtual csrows/channels, while the second one
> initializes the struct that contains the real DIMM or rank information.
>
> Patches 1 to 4 are just a preparation for patch 5/13, cleaning what's
> possible before the big change.
>
> While it is possible to do the above merge on this patch alone, such
> cleanup doesn't make sense at the patch series (and should be reverted
> on patch 5/13 anyway), as what we want is to separate the DIMM information
> on a data structure that won't mix it with a memory layout-dependent
> information, as not all drivers use csrows/channels.

So what?!

Does that mean we do patches in between other patches where code quality
is not that good simply because we'll remove that in the later patch?
No!

Also, 5/13 is a monster and needs proper splitting anyway. So, if you
have a strong technical reason to do two loops, please come forward with
it. Otherwise, please change your patches to review requirements as
_everyone_ else does on lkml instead of giving some unrelated and bogus
reasoning for this and that.

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