From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [PATCH] small mca cleanup Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:28:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200708161714.37666.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200708161714.37666.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Christoph Egger , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Oh yeah, sure: Xen-specific stuff and the general MCE/MCA reworking that you're talking about are one thing. But there's no point in minor fixes and stylistic cleanups going into Xen and bypassing upstream Linux. -- Keir On 16/8/07 16:14, "Christoph Egger" wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2007 16:42:37 Keir Fraser wrote: >> The file you modify is from upstream Linux, and that's where this patch >> belongs. > > oh, I have many changes in my queue in files that are from Linux > (and also new files, that are not in Linux). > They do one thing, that does not belong into Linux (or any other OS): > Notifying guests, preferably Dom0. > > I'm about extracting the least intrusive changes first. > We can still push changes into Linux that belong to there. > > For more information where this is going to, please see the > discussion "MCE/MCA concept" on this list. The thread started here: > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-05/msg01015.html > > Christoph > >> >> -- Keir >> >> On 16/8/07 15:36, "Christoph Egger" wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> The MCG_CAP MSR never returns a negative count of available >>> error-reporting banks. Thus make nr_mce_banks unsigned. >>> >>> While here, do some other minor cleanups. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger > >