[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/8] dmi: Move memdev_dmi_entry definition to dmi.h (v2)

Jean Delvare jdelvare at suse.de
Thu Aug 10 09:39:16 UTC 2017


On mer., 2017-08-09 at 09:18 -0700, Matt Roper wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:36:05AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Matt, Mauro,
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:18:20 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue,  8 Mar 2016 10:32:37 -0800, Matt Roper wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > A couple of the EDAC drivers have a nice memdev_dmi_entry structure for
> > > > decoding DMI memory device entries.  Move the structure definition to
> > > > dmi.h so that it can be shared between those drivers and also other
> > > > parts of the kernel; the i915 graphics driver is going to need to use
> > > > this structure soon as well.  As part of this move we rename the
> > > > structure s/memdev_dmi_entry/dmi_entry_memdev/ to ensure it has a proper
> > > > 'dmi' prefix.
> > > > 
> > > > v2:
> > > >  - Rename structure to dmi_entry_memdev.  (Jean)
> > > >  - Use __packed instead of __attribute__((__packed__)) for consistency
> > > >    with the rest of the dmi.h header.  (Jean)  
> > > 
> > > Looks better. (...)
> > 
> > What happened to this patch? I never received v3. Is it sill needed?
> 
> We ended up going a different direction in the graphics driver and wound
> up not needing access to this structure.  If there's still interest in
> the general refactoring here, let me know and I can incorporate your
> last feedback and respin a v3.

No, if you don't need it anymore I'll just drop it.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support


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