Re: [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code

Dave Peterson
2006-03-10T17:46:55Z

On Thursday 09 March 2006 23:36, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> ok so this is actually a per pci device property!
> I would suggest moving this property to the pci device itself, not doing
> it inside an edac directory.
>
> by doing that you get the advantage that 1) it's a more logical place,
> and 2) users can do it even for 1 of 2 cards, if they have 2 cards of
> the same make and 3) you can use the generic kernel quirk interface for
> this and 4) drivers can in principle control this for their hardware in
> complex cases
>
> I understand that on a PC, EDAC is the only user. but ppc has a similar
> mechanism I suspect, and they more than likely would be able to share
> this property....

I'd be curious to hear people's opinions on the following idea:
move the PCI bus parity error checking functionality from EDAC
to the PCI subsystem.