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From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <dougthompson@xmission.com>, <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
	<linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] edac, mce_amd_inj: Modify flags attrigute to use string arguments
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 14:12:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5568BA2F.4040706@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150529190542.GQ31435@pd.tnic>

On 5/29/2015 2:05 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 01:20:31PM -0500, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>> Hmm. That should work. Will simplify it in the next version.
>> I think I had a NULL in flags_options[] to denote the invalid option.
> Still a good thing to have it as a terminator. But the loop I proposed
> doesn't even touch it: i < N_INJ_TYPES.

Which was exactly why I was thinking of removing it. But..

> I'd leave the NULL array
> terminator.

.. OK. Shall retain.

>> Shall I make err = -EINVAL by default and return that here if the
>> condition is not satisfied?
> We have to make sure to not be overeager to error out - this'll make
> using this facility a bit more cumbersome.
>
> So I think your approach was correct to trim it to MAX_FLAG_OPT_SIZE.
> __set_inj() will catch any string mismatches anyway.
>

OK then, Will retain the original method,
and move the 'ret = cnt' assignment after this check. (Forgot to ack 
that in earlier reply)

Thanks,
-Aravind.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-29 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27 19:03 [PATCH 0/6] Updates to EDAC mce_amd_inj Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-27 19:03 ` [PATCH 1/6] edac, mce_amd_inj: Use MCE_INJECT_GET for bank Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-27 19:03 ` [PATCH 2/6] edac, mce_amd_inj: Rework sanity check for inj_bank_set Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-27 19:03 ` [PATCH 3/6] edac, mce_amd_inj: Modify flags attrigute to use string arguments Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-29 13:49   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-29 18:20     ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-29 19:05       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-29 19:12         ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan [this message]
2015-06-01 19:16     ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-27 19:03 ` [PATCH 4/6] edac, mce_amd_inj: Add capability to trigger apic interrupts Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-29 15:36   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-29 18:27     ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-29 19:18       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-27 19:03 ` [PATCH 5/6] edac, mce_amd_inj: Add README file Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-29 15:38   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-29 18:29     ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-27 19:03 ` [PATCH 6/6] edac, mce_amd_inj: Inject errors on NBC for bank 4 errors Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-29 16:00   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-29 18:52     ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2015-05-29 19:23       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-05-29 19:27         ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan

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