From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759984Ab2EJPNY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 11:13:24 -0400 Received: from s15943758.onlinehome-server.info ([217.160.130.188]:56412 "EHLO mail.x86-64.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759848Ab2EJPNI (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 11:13:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 17:12:54 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Borislav Petkov , Linux Edac Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Doug Thompson , Steven Rostedt , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Tony Luck , gregkh Subject: Re: [EDAC ABI v13 04/25] events/hw_event: Create a Hardware Events Report Mecanism (HERM) Message-ID: <20120510151254.GD32700@aftab.osrc.amd.com> References: <4FAA6802.9070506@redhat.com> <20120509132237.GD22737@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <4FAA7649.5080606@redhat.com> <20120509140632.GG22737@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <4FAA7C1A.3020406@redhat.com> <20120509142456.GH22737@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <4FABBFAF.20809@redhat.com> <20120510134136.GC31257@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <4FABD653.7060401@redhat.com> <4FABD9F0.6050008@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FABD9F0.6050008@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:08:32PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > There's also another technical reason to give an acronym to the EDAC > version that actually works: changeset numbers are not consistent > within distributions (or other trees, like -stable - although this 60+ > patch series probably won't fit on -stable merging criteria). > > Also, this EDAC changeset 60+ patch series can't be represented by a > single changeset, and requires userspace changes in order to get a > proper representation model for memories. > > Tagging the EDAC core version with a name helps a lot when dealing > with all the unsolved bugzillas that will be closed by backporting > this patch series in order to fix the serious EDAC core bug that > were providing fake information to the end user for all Intel memory > controllers manufactured after 2005. edac_module.c:18:#define EDAC_VERSION "Ver: 2.1.0" Increment that in the last patch. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24, 85609 Dornach GM: Alberto Bozzo Reg: Dornach, Landkreis Muenchen HRB Nr. 43632 WEEE Registernr: 129 19551