RE: [PATCH v5 0/2] ACPI: APEI: Add support to notify the vendor specific HW errors

From: Shiju Jose
Date: Wed Mar 25 2020 - 12:27:20 EST


Hi Bjorn,

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>Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] ACPI: APEI: Add support to notify the vendor
>specific HW errors
>
>1) If you can post things as a series, i.e., with patch 1/2 and patch
>2/2 being responses to the 0/2 cover letter, that makes things easier.
>It looks like you did this for the previous postings.
I will send the patches as series after fixing the issues in the patch subject lines.

>
>2) When applying these, "git am" complained (but they did apply
>cleanly):
>
> warning: Patch sent with format=flowed; space at the end of lines might be
>lost.
> Applying: APEI: Add support to notify the vendor specific HW errors
> warning: Patch sent with format=flowed; space at the end of lines might be
>lost.
> Applying: PCI: HIP: Add handling of HiSilicon HIP PCIe controller errors
>
>3) drivers/pci/controller/pcie-hisi-error.c should be next to
>drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-hisi.c, shouldn't it?
Our hip PCIe controller doesn't use DWC ip.

>
>4) Your subject lines don't match the convention. "git log --oneline
>drivers/acpi/apei" says:
>
> 011077d8fbfe ("APEI: Add support to notify the vendor specific HW errors")
> cea79e7e2f24 ("apei/ghes: Do not delay GHES polling")
> 933ca4e323de ("acpi: Use pr_warn instead of pr_warning")
> 6abc7622271d ("ACPI / APEI: Release resources if gen_pool_add() fails")
> bb100b64763c ("ACPI / APEI: Get rid of NULL_UUID_LE constant")
> 371b86897d01 ("ACPI / APEI: Remove needless __ghes_check_estatus()
>calls")
>
>and "git log --oneline --follow drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-hisi*"
>says:
>
> 6e0832fa432e ("PCI: Collect all native drivers under drivers/pci/controller/")
> 8cfab3cf63cf ("PCI: Add SPDX GPL-2.0 to replace GPL v2 boilerplate")
> 5a4751680189 ("PCI: hisi: Constify dw_pcie_host_ops structure")
> b379d385bbaa ("PCI: hisi: Remove unused variable driver")
> a5f40e8098fe ("PCI: Don't allow unbinding host controllers that aren't
>prepared")
> e313a447e735 ("PCI: hisi: Update PCI config space remap function")
> b9c1153f7a9c ("PCI: hisi: Fix DT binding (hisi-pcie-almost-ecam)")
>
>So your subject lines should be:
>
> ACPI / APEI: ...
Sure. I will fix this.

> PCI: hisi: ...
Can we use PCI: hip because this driver is for the HIP hardware devices.

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Thanks,
Shiju