Re: [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:06 +0000, Tim Small wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > It depends on how many PCI devices in your machine you wish to
> >
> >>blacklist or whitelist.  The motivation for this feature is that
> >>certain known badly-designed devices report an endless stream of
> >>spurious PCI bus parity errors.  We want to skip such devices when
> >>checking for PCI bus parity errors.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >ok so this is actually a per pci device property!
> >I would suggest moving this property to the pci device itself, not doing
> >it inside an edac directory.
> >  
> >
> Yes, this seems more sensible to me.  For one thing, I suspect that just 
> keying on vendor:device is probably too blunt for this and that 
> blacklisting a particular PCI device revision is a likely requirement, 
> as well as subsystem vendor/subsystem device.

and maybe even something as funky as firmware version.
So it for sure is a per device (not per ID) property, and something that
needs a global quirk table kind of thing with the option to do per
driver overrides


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