Re: [PATCH] Raise maximum number of memory controllers

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Oct 01 2018 - 08:47:51 EST


On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:10:54PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> I don't remember about any rationale behind /sys/bus/edac. It was
> there already before I start working on EDAC about 10 years ago.
> I guess it was used in the past by edac-utils (or maybe it is just a
> side effect of the need to create a bus on some past).
>
> Btw, The documented EDAC ABI is /sys/devices/system/edac, as
> described at Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-edac.
>
> So, I suspect it should be safe to get rid of /sys/bus/edac,
> provided that it won't cause side effects at /sys/devices/system/edac.
>
> Why I think it is safe to get rid of /sys/bus/edac?
> ---------------------------------------------------

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Thanks for the analysis. So yap, I think we should try to rip out the
whole bus hierarchy then, when we have a quiet minute and whoever does
this, should add your analysis to the commit message so that we know.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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