[RFC PATCH v3] edac: synps: Added EDAC support for zynq ddr ecc controller

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Thu Jul 31 06:17:02 PDT 2014


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:13:48PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> Mixing two drivers in the one file is not a good idea because with
> more memory controllers it is just a mess and you are not able to
> cover all cases.

Why is it a mess?

> If this is just about providing uniq number we can easily extend
> binding and provide that uniq value. That's remind me solution with
> edac_mc_get_id() can caused that you won't have exact number all the
> time - depends on driver loading (deferred probing too).

-ENOPARSE for this sentence.

> One option via DT can be via aliases where you can easily specify
> order. But all of these issues can be solved in follow-up patch.

Whatever you do, it should be designed cleanly and not introduce some
homegrown solution.

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    Boris.

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