Re: [RFC PATCH 00/21] amd64_edac: EDAC module for AMD64

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 16:05:37 EST


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:34:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> (cc Doug. He was omitted from the [0/n] email. Please be careul about
> that)
>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:06:12 +0200
> Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:58:52AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:05:52PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > > Hi Andrew,
> > > > hi Greg,
> > > >
> > > > I think you've already heard about this driver, so here is a first
> > > > upstream submission request. It is quite sizable but partly the reason
> > > > for it is that it handles ECC detection and reporting for all AMD
> > > > K8, F10h and F11h families. It also implements DRAM error injection
> > > > functionality, failing DIMM module detection and some other fun stuff
> > > > found on F10h and later CPUs.
> > > >
> > > > We've been doing testing/bugfixing/scrubbing here for some time, have
> > > > converted it to using kernel facilities and basically removed some slack
> > > > from it like glue code due to it being maintained out-of-tree. Please
> > > > take a look and let us know of any objections/comments you might have so
> > > > that we could tackle them on time.
> > >
> > > At first glance, it looks sane to me.
> > >
> > > Want me to put it in my driver tree so it can show up in -next? Or is
> > > there some other tree you want to use?
> >
> > -next should be just fine, let the code see some more testing :).
>
> I suspect we will need another iteration because of the rdmsr/wrmsr
> thing.
>
> I normally merge EDAC patches via -mm but there will be little overlap
> with a new driver such as this and I still haven't got my junk into
> linux-next yet. So whatever.

Ok, you can take them, I have enough patches in my tree :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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