Re: [PATCH] EDAC: Add AMD Seattle SoC EDAC

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:44:46AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> > This second property doesn't describe the hardware in any way. It should
> > be runtime-configurable and dpesn't belong in the DT.
> > 
> > Regardless, the binding is wrong. This is in no way specific to AMD
> > Seattle, and per the code is actually used to imply the presence of a
> > Cortex-A57 feature. No reference to AMD Seattle belongs in the DT
> > binding (with the exception of the example, perhaps), nor in the driver.
> > 
> > NAK while this pretends to be something that it isn't. At minimum, you
> > need to correctly describe the feature you are trying to add support
> > for.
> > 
> I will remove AMD specific string in compatibility field and make the poll-delay-msec optional. Will also expose this as module parameter as you suggested below.

Btw, how much of this is implementing generic A57 functionality?

If a lot, can we make this a generic a57_edac driver so that multiple
vendors can use it?

How fast and how ugly can something like that become?

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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