From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.4 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3C4C47257 for ; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A7F9206B9 for ; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="PwsUNJU0" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730595AbgEEPu5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2020 11:50:57 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com ([205.139.110.120]:29351 "EHLO us-smtp-1.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729828AbgEEPu4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2020 11:50:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1588693854; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=BU5ZQpCj0l/68xgDkpfBCKuLh4I4hSUfny0CTG25x9g=; b=PwsUNJU0ax5k3wvk+pBb0rx73cKtx/ITpKqJ0rh03h16PuRibD0QhzPnq9upkd14lA4WVm evS9mpD0YWRfGU7JsWlBKD3SOVnKyM4bNiHTb4lq78/aTM3n0uG11HfnTyJXiWRdekBTcW mAz+MKupSJZ4462LiJ6BF9zgT1ahiho= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-94-OGdSBiARP6-UJlOyuB7bbA-1; Tue, 05 May 2020 11:50:50 -0400 X-MC-Unique: OGdSBiARP6-UJlOyuB7bbA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E64DD84E27B; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:50:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from llong.remote.csb (ovpn-114-81.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.114.81]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96775D9DA; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:50:45 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix some typo errors in ras.rst To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Tony Luck , Borislav Petkov , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , James Morse , Robert Richter , linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20200505151049.11134-1-longman@redhat.com> <20200505093258.77d052f5@lwn.net> From: Waiman Long Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: <2cb38bb2-bdb5-5fea-870a-ec92401ea374@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 11:50:45 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200505093258.77d052f5@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5/5/20 11:32 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2020 11:10:49 -0400 > Waiman Long wrote: > >> Fix typo errors. >> >> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long >> --- >> Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst | 8 ++++---- >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst >> index 0310db624964..8b1803b2606f 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst >> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst >> @@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ the labels provided by the BIOS won't match the real ones. >> ECC memory >> ---------- >> >> -As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to be >> -used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module >> -has 64 bits of *data width*, and 74 bits of *total width*. So, there are >> -8 bits extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction >> +As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to >> +be used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module >> +has 64 bits of *data width*, and 72 bits of *total width*. So, there >> +are 8 extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction >> mechanisms. Those extra bits are called *syndrome*\ [#f1]_\ [#f2]_. > So I had to work to figure out what the change was, since you didn't say > in the changelog and you refilled the paragraph. But this looks like a > *factual* error, giving the wrong number of bits, right? It seems like > the changelog should say that. Do the people who know about this stuff > agree that the change is correct? > > Thanks, > > jon > Yes, I change 74 bits to 72 bits and remove an extra "bits". Will send out v2 to clarify that. Thanks, Longman