Re: PATCH: EDAC, core EDAC support code

[Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>]

--- Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> > +
> > +static ctl_table mc_table[] = {
> > +	{-1, "panic_on_ue", &panic_on_ue,
> > +	 sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, proc_dointvec},
> > +	{-2, "log_ue", &log_ue,
> > +	 sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, proc_dointvec},
> > +	{-3, "log_ce", &log_ce,
> > +	 sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, proc_dointvec},
> > +	{-4, "poll_msec", &poll_msec,
> > +	 sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, proc_dointvec},
> > +	{-7, "panic_on_pci_parity",
> &panic_on_pci_parity,
> > +	 sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, proc_dointvec},
> > +	{-8, "check_pci_parity", &check_pci_parity,
> > +	 sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, proc_dointvec},
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_EDAC_DEBUG
> > +	{-9, "debug_level", &edac_debug_level,
> > +	 sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, proc_dointvec},
> > +#endif
> > +	{0}
> > +};
> 
> why aren't these module parameters? Nowadays you can
> have sysfs-runtime
> changable module parameters... sounds a lot nicer
> than adding a chunk of
> sysctl stuff
> 
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> > +static const char *mem_types[] = {
> > +	[MEM_EMPTY] = "Empty",
> > +	[MEM_RESERVED] = "Reserved",
> > +	[MEM_UNKNOWN] = "Unknown",
> > +	[MEM_FPM] = "FPM",
> > +	[MEM_EDO] = "EDO",
> > +	[MEM_BEDO] = "BEDO",
> > +	[MEM_SDR] = "Unbuffered-SDR",
> > +	[MEM_RDR] = "Registered-SDR",
> > +	[MEM_DDR] = "Unbuffered-DDR",
> > +	[MEM_RDDR] = "Registered-DDR",
> > +	[MEM_RMBS] = "RMBS"
> > +};
> 
> 
> why proc? Again this sounds like a platform sysfs
> thing...

The plan is to move from /proc to sysfs operations,
info and control. But the core works at this time and
patches will be forth coming once the baseline is in.
We want to make the currently work features "work".

doug "norsk" thompson



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