--- On Wed, 4/15/09, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH 2/3] EDAC: Add edac_device_alloc_index()
> To: "Harry Ciao" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], 
> [email protected], [email protected], 
> [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:27 PM
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:05:15 +0800
> Harry Ciao <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Add edac_device_alloc_index(), because for MAPLE
> platform there may
> > exist several EDAC driver modules that could make use
> of
> > edac_device_ctl_info structure at the same time. The
> index allocation
> > for these structures should be taken care of by EDAC
> core.
> > 
> 
> From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> 
> keep things neat.  Also avoids having global
> identifier device_index
> shadowed by local identifier device_index.
> 
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Doug Thompson <[email protected]>

> Cc: Harry Ciao <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kumar Gala <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/edac/edac_device.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -puN
> drivers/edac/amd8111_edac.c~edac-add-edac_device_alloc_index-cleanup
> drivers/edac/amd8111_edac.c
> diff -puN
> drivers/edac/edac_core.h~edac-add-edac_device_alloc_index-cleanup
> drivers/edac/edac_core.h
> diff -puN
> drivers/edac/edac_device.c~edac-add-edac_device_alloc_index-cleanup
> drivers/edac/edac_device.c
> ---
> a/drivers/edac/edac_device.c~edac-add-edac_device_alloc_index-cleanup
> +++ a/drivers/edac/edac_device.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
>   */
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(device_ctls_mutex);
>  static LIST_HEAD(edac_device_list);
> -static atomic_t device_indexes = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_EDAC_DEBUG
>  static void edac_device_dump_device(struct
> edac_device_ctl_info *edac_dev)
> @@ -499,6 +498,8 @@ void
> edac_device_reset_delay_period(stru
>   */
>  int edac_device_alloc_index(void)
>  {
> +    static atomic_t device_indexes =
> ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> +
>      return
> atomic_inc_return(&device_indexes) - 1;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_device_alloc_index);
> _
> 
> 
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