On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:26:59AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So why does neither the changelog nor the code comment actually _explain_
> this and
> give aa bit of a background about what 'syndrome information' is and why we
> want
> to have kernel support for it?
>
> This is why I hate kernel tooling that is not part of the kernel tree - the
> mcelog
> patch (hopefully ...) would tell us more about all this - but it's separate
> and
> this patch does not tell us anything ...
Ah, this is one of those omissions where we forgot to explain, sorry.
How about this:
"The syndrome value is used to uniquely identify which bits of a
reported ECC error are corrupted."
Do you want it as a comment in the code or in the commit message or both?
Thanks.
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Boris.
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