Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] EDAC: al-mc-edac: Introduce Amazon's Annapurna Labs Memory Controller EDAC

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 01:16:10PM +0300, Shenhar, Talel wrote:
> > > +     mci = edac_mc_alloc(0, ARRAY_SIZE(layers), layers,
> > > +                         sizeof(struct al_mc_edac));
> > You can let that line stick out.
> 
> I rather avoid having this as a checkpatch warnning... (automation and
> stuff...)

checkpatch.pl - while useful - should not be taken to the letter and
human brain should be applied to sanity check it what it warns about.

> This line break does seems to my eye as too hard to read.
> 
> Let me know if you feel strongly about it.

I'm just sayin' - in the end of the day you'll be staring at that code -
not me - so whatever *you* prefer. :-)

Just don't follow tools blindly.

> > > +     if (al_mc->irq_ue <= 0 || al_mc->irq_ce <= 0)
> > Shouldn't this be && here?
> > 
> > I mean, you want to poll when neither of the IRQs can be found. But then
> > if you find one of them and not the other, what do you do? Poll and
> > interrupt? Is that case even possible?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> In case dt defined interrupt line only for one type and not for the other,
> than the interrupt mode shall be used for one of them while polling mode for
> the other.

That warrants a comment above it.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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