Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] PCI/AER: Add sysfs attributes to provide breakdown of AERs

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Fri Jun 22 2018 - 13:27:43 EST


On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:38:50PM -0400, Tyler Baicar wrote:
> On 6/21/2018 5:25 PM, Rajat Jain wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > [+cc Tyler for AER dmesg decoding]
> > >
> > > - Tyler posted a patch [1] to update those dmesg strings so they match
> > > the way lspci decodes them. I really liked that update, but we
> > > never quite finished it. If we're going to do that, it would be
> > > nice to do it first, so we don't publish new sysfs files, then
> > > immediately change the labels used in them.
> > Sure, I guess you can push them in the right order.
> The way the prints are handled has already been unified in 4.18rc1:
>
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.18-rc1/source/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c#L636
>
> So that patch isn't needed anymore in it's entirety.
> > > - IIRC, Tyler's patch had the nice property of changing the strings so
> > > each error name had no spaces, which would make it a little easier
> > > to parse this sysfs file: each line would be a single identifier
> > > followed by a single number (I would probably remove the "=" from
> > > the middle).
> >
> > Will do.
> Would you like me to send a patch with just the string changes?

That would be awesome! Sorry, I didn't realize that half of that got
done via another route.

Bjorn