Re: [RESEND PATCH] memory: Freescale CoreNet Coherency Fabric error reporting driver

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 12:04 -0500, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 10:12 PM
> > To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; linux-
> > kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] memory: Freescale CoreNet Coherency Fabric error
> > reporting driver
> > 
> > On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 03:17 -0500, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:
> > > > +static int ccf_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) {
> > > > +	struct ccf_private *ccf = dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev);
> > > > +
> > > > +	switch (ccf->info->version) {
> > > > +	case CCF1:
> > > > +		iowrite32be(0, &ccf->err_regs->errdis);
> > > > +		break;
> > > > +
> > > > +	case CCF2:
> > > > +		iowrite32be(0, &ccf->err_regs->errinten);
> > >
> > > Do you think it is same to disable detection bits in ccf->err_regs->errdis?
> > 
> > Disabling the interrupt is what we're aiming for here, but ccf1 doesn't provide
> > a way to do that separate from disabling detection.
> 
> What I wanted to say that do we also need to disable detection (set
> ERRDET_LAE | ERRDET_CV bits in errdis) apart from clearing errinten on
> ccf2 ?

I don't think we "need" to.  You could argue that we should for
consistency, though I think there's value in errors continuing to be
detected even without the driver (e.g. can dump the registers in a
debugger).

-Scott