Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:23:26 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: borislav.petkov@amd.com, greg@kroah.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
       dougthompson@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/21] amd64_edac: add f10-and-later methods-p3
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:22:55 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > > +		InputAddr = ChannelAddrLong >> 8;
> > > +
> > > +		debugf1("   (ChannelAddrLong=0x%llx) >> 8 becomes "
> > > +			"InputAddr=0x%x\n", ChannelAddrLong, InputAddr);
> > > +
> > > +		/* Iterate over the DRAM DCTs looking for a
> > > +		 * match for InputAddr on the selected NodeID
> > > +		 */
> > > +		CSFound = f10_lookup_addr_in_dct(InputAddr,
> > > +						NodeID, ChannelSelect);
> > > +
> > > +		if (CSFound >= 0) {
> > > +			*node_id = NodeID;
> > > +			*channel_select = ChannelSelect;
> > > +		}
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	return CSFound;
> > > +}
> > 
> > this function is probably too large, and also it uses some weird 
> > hungarian notation coding style. Please dont do that! It's 
> > completely unacceptable.
> 
> These identifers (or at least, DctSelBaseOffsetLong, which is the 
> only one I googled for) come straight out of the AMD "BIOS and 
> Kernel Developer's Guide".
> 
> Sucky though they are, there's value in making the kernel code 
> match up with the documentation.

I'm generally resisting patches that hungarinize arch/x86/ (and heck 
there's been many attempts ...) but there's some conflicting advice 
here. I've Cc:-ed Linus, maybe he has an opinion about this.

My gut reaction would be 'hell no'. There's other, structural 
problems with this code too, and doing some saner naming would 
mostly be a sed job and would take minimal amount of time. The 
naming can still be intuitive. The symbols from the documentation 
can perhaps be mentioned in a couple of comments to establish a 
mapping.

	Ingo
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