Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add a per-dimm structure

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:07:10AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 16-03-2012 09:07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab escreveu:
> > Em 16-03-2012 08:15, Borislav Petkov escreveu:
> >> Lemme save you all the trouble:
> ...
> > Anyway, I wrote the patches for it already after Greg's email.
> > I'm just about to test them.
> 
> And they're already working. 
> 
> The patches are (will be, after mirror sync) at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac.git hw_events_v8
> 
> There are just two new patches on it (and some bug fix patches got fold
> to simplify their review):
> 
> c316427 edac: preserve the current EDAC sysfs API on a separate file
> 
> 	- Just copies the edac_mc_sysfs.c as edac_mc_sysfs_legacy.c,
> 	  in order to preserve the ABI before the changes;
> 
> 22790f1 edac: Convert edac mc to use struct device
> 
> 	- Fixes edac_mc_sysfs_legacy.c with the changes at the struct,
> 	  and converts edac_mc_sysfs to use struct device.
> 
> There are still a few adjustments to do, so this is not a final version,
> but the patch is already doing what's expected.
> 
> I decided to code the ras functions it as a new class, under:
> 	/sys/class/ras

Ah, you really shouldn't be creating new classes in the kernel either,
sorry.  Why is this needed, and you can't just use a bus and struct
device in the place where the kobjects were in the tree?

thanks,

greg k-h