Re: [PATCH 3/6] edac, mce_amd_inj: Modify flags attrigute to use string arguments

[Aravind Gopalakrishnan]

On 5/29/2015 2:05 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 01:20:31PM -0500, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > Hmm. That should work. Will simplify it in the next version.
> > I think I had a NULL in flags_options[] to denote the invalid option.
> Still a good thing to have it as a terminator. But the loop I proposed
> doesn't even touch it: i < N_INJ_TYPES.

Which was exactly why I was thinking of removing it. But..

> I'd leave the NULL array
> terminator.

.. OK. Shall retain.

> > Shall I make err = -EINVAL by default and return that here if the
> > condition is not satisfied?
> We have to make sure to not be overeager to error out - this'll make
> using this facility a bit more cumbersome.
>
> So I think your approach was correct to trim it to MAX_FLAG_OPT_SIZE.
> __set_inj() will catch any string mismatches anyway.

OK then, Will retain the original method,
and move the 'ret = cnt' assignment after this check. (Forgot to ack 
that in earlier reply)

Thanks,
-Aravind.
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