Re: [PATCH 6/6] mce-inject: use injected mce only during faked handler call

[Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Huang Ying wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 15:27 +0800, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: 
>> Huang Ying wrote:
>>> This is another example for you to use my idea, implement it in a
>>> similar way and send it out as your own.
>> I used "Reported-by:" for this patch, having some intent to indicate
>> that this patch uses an idea different from the original one, and that
>> this patch aims at the problem certainly reported by you.
> 
> The point of the idea is to use two flags instead of one flag, not the
> name of the flag or they are inside/outside of struct mce.

Humm, I could be wrong and could misread your comment...

The point of my idea is to use two separated flags, "inject_flags" for
inject tool and "valid" for kernel, instead of one flag as you proposed,
"inject_flags" shared by both. 
And I think the flag for kernel should be outside of struct mce.

Once I complained about the name of flag ".finished", because you were
trying to add "LOADED" flag.  I thought that "if .finished but !LOADED, it
means the loading data to struct is finished but not loaded.. ???what???"

So at first I tried to add 3rd state to ".finished", but soon I agreed
that it is not good idea.

After that I started to think about having two separated flags, and the
result is this [6/6] patch in -v2.

In short, I believe that my idea is "use two flags" and your idea is
"share one flag" ... right?


The only thing what I want to do here is merge your "fix" into upstream.


Thanks,
H.Seto