On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 09:46 -0800, Dave Peterson wrote:
> On Thursday 09 March 2006 23:36, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > by doing that you get the advantage that 1) it's a more logical place,
> > and 2) users can do it even for 1 of 2 cards, if they have 2 cards of
> > the same make and 3) you can use the generic kernel quirk interface for
> > this and 4) drivers can in principle control this for their hardware in
> > complex cases
> >
> > I understand that on a PC, EDAC is the only user. but ppc has a similar
> > mechanism I suspect, and they more than likely would be able to share
> > this property....
>
> I'd be curious to hear people's opinions on the following idea:
> move the PCI bus parity error checking functionality from EDAC
> to the PCI subsystem.
I can see the point on at least moving all the infrastructure there.
The actual call to run it... maybe. that's more debatable I suppose.
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