Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] ghes_edac: avoid multiple calls to dmi_walk()

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Aug 15 2017 - 11:50:12 EST


On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 03:35:51PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> ghes_edac instantiates an mci as a pseudo device representing a GHES
> error source. Each error source associates with all DIMMs, and may
> report errors independently. As ghes_edac is an GHES error-reporting
> wrapper to edac, this abstraction makes sense.

Bullshit.

An MCI is a memory controller descriptor. That doesn't fit the GHES
platform devices that get probed. GHES platform device != MCI. How many
times do I need to say this for it to get through to you?

> I do not see a problem in having counters for each GHES error source.

And the error counters of that "simulated" mci get incremented depending
on which pointer gets passed in from GHES? More bullshit.

> This is just statistics info, and ghes_edac does not expect any OS
> action from the counters.

So let me know if you don't want to do it and rather would prefer to
pointlessly debate. I certainly don't want to waste my time debating.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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