Re: [PATCH] Changes to the ACPI/APEI/EINJ debugfs interface

From: Tony Luck
Date: Wed Nov 06 2013 - 16:26:29 EST


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder if, at some point in the future - not now, necessarily, it'll
> be prudent to add an error injection struct descriptor which contains
> all those param* thingies and some of them could even be defined as a
> union in it in order to make the whole code more readable. Like the
> 'address' variable, for example, which is valid for multiple error
> types...
>
> Just an idea though, so let me throw it out in the open.

That would indeed be a nice cleanup for later ... that many arguments
to a function is tickling my threshold for "this ought to be simpler".
Especially as we pass them all through einj_error_inject() on the way
to __einj_error_inject(). Perhaps don't even need a new structure,
just fill them into the existing set_error_type_with_address struct
(which is the format they need to be in to pass to the BIOS).

-Tony
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