From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ECC error counting for AMD76x chipset, char/ecc.c driver
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:46:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051205184656.GH12664@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4394864D.3000704@obviously.com>
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:26:21AM -0800, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> Summary:
> * Patch is relevant to driver "char/ecc.c", for the AMD76x Athlon chipset.
>
> * Note: this module is often not installed by default: do "modprobe ecc"
> then "cat /proc/ram" to check your ECC memory for detected soft errors.
> * Patch is against Linux-2.6.13, the last kernel I could find with ecc.c
> * Tabs suck.
>
> I am an infrequent contributor, and did not find a matching entry in the
> ./MAINTAINERS file. Please help me to understand the proper procedure
> for submitting this patch. I understand that perhaps ecc.c is changing
> soon. So maybe it's not the most important patch, but it does fix a
> real bug, and is quite simple.
drivers/char/ecc.c only lives in various vendor kernels.
you may want to check if your patch is relevant to the edac
code present in -mm though.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-05 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-05 18:26 [PATCH] Fix ECC error counting for AMD76x chipset, char/ecc.c driver Bryce Nesbitt
2005-12-05 18:46 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-12-05 19:10 ` Bryce Nesbitt
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