Re: [PATCH 0/6] EDAC Patch Set

[mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:55:12AM -0700, Doug Thompson wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Jurgen Kramer <gtm.kramer@inter.nl.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Will this patchset fix/suppress the "Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B"
> > messages I see with the E7525 edac?
> 
> No not yet. These patches are part of the set we gathered in the queue after EDAC
> was put into the kernel as a result of various other feedback.  The Non-Fatal noise
> has been placed in the queue of work to do. Dave Peterson, who was co-maintainer of
> EDAC, has moved on, so I have picking up the TODO slack and flushing these patches
> out the door so I can start with a somewhat cleaner slate.
> 
> The good news is I have found a maintainer for the E7525 MC driver (I don't have
> access to a mobo with that chipset, so I have a problem in verifying any mods I do
> work) who has agreed to work with that driver. Thanks to mark gross for taking that
> on. He and I have discussed this noise issue.
> 

I have a couple of platforms that reproduce the non-fatal pci express noise.

As I mentioned to Doug, I will dig into this issue after OLS.   However; if
anyone has any ideas to share with me on it I'll take any advice I can get.  I
first would like to get a good root cause on why these things are coming from
the PCI code atfer loading the edac_e752x driver. 

--mgross

> doug thompson
> 
> > 
> > I am running 2.6.16 (or more specific FC5 2.6.16-1.2111) with seems to
> > already include this version:
> > 
> > MC: drivers/edac/edac_mc.c version edac_mc  Ver: 2.0.0 May  4 2006
> > 
> > This version still floods my syslog with "Non-Fatal Error...." messages.
> > 
> > Jurgen
> 
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