Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:34:11 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       greg@kroah.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
       dougthompson@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/21] amd64_edac: add DRAM error injection logic using
	sysfs
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* Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> I believe I failed to reply to ALL and replied only to the sender
> 
> doug t
> 
> --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/21] amd64_edac: add DRAM error injection logic using sysfs
> > To: "Borislav Petkov" <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
> > Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, greg@kroah.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, dougthompson@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 12:17 PM
> > 
> > * Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
> > > ---
> > >? drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c |? 287
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >? 1 files changed, 287 insertions(+), 0
> > deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
> > b/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
> > > index b1a7e8c..4d1076f 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
> > > @@ -4621,3 +4621,290 @@ static ssize_t
> > amd64_hole_show(struct mem_ctl_info *mci, char *data)
> > >? 
> > >? #endif??? /* DEBUG */
> > >? 
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_EDAC_AMD64_OPTERON_ERROR_INJECTION
> > 
> > this should be in a separate .c file under
> > drivers/edac/amd64/. 
> > 
> > Introducing large #ifdef sections like that is not very
> > clean. The 
> > amd64_edac.c file is _way_ too large at more than 5000
> > lines of 
> > code.
> > 
> > ??? Ingo
> 
> If we broke this into a separate files, then there would be TWO 
> (2) files: 1 for the source code of the routines and a 1 for the 
> table entries which reference those routines. Is that then 
> acceptable as well?
> 
> Same pattern applies to the DEBUG functions Info refers to in 
> another thread: 2 separate files would be required as well.
> 
> 2 files for Error Injection code
> 2 files for DEBUG controls
> 1 files for text mapping
> 
> and I assume all these would be included via an #include statement 
> at their appropriate locations

A Makefile might be more natural i think - that way the #ifdef turns 
into a makefile rule?

	Ingo
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