[PATCHv3 3/3] edac: altera: Add EDAC support for Altera SDRAM

[Thor Thayer]

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de> wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 03:31:53PM -0500, Thor Thayer wrote:
>> Yes, good point. Our hardware can't recover from Double Bit Errors so
>> I'll go back to the panic() in that path. I like the flexibility of
>> the command line parameter though...
>
> Like to panic by default when the machine is booted normally but to be
> able to turn off the panicking with a module parameter?
>
> If so, then you could probably implement a trivial setter called
>
> edac_mc_set_panic_on_ue() in a separate patch.
>
> Then, you call it at the end of altr_sdram_probe().
>
> If you want to turn it off again, you do
>
> echo "0" > /sys/module/edac_core/parameters/edac_mc_panic_on_ue
>
> Something like that...
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
> Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
> --

Hi Boris. Yes. this would be a nice solution. I'll use the panic for
now in my next revision of the patch - we know a DBE is bad news.
Thanks!