Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] PCI/AER: Add sysfs attributes to provide breakdown of AERs

[Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>]

On 6/21/2018 5:25 PM, Rajat Jain wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:
>> [+cc Tyler for AER dmesg decoding]
>>
>> - Tyler posted a patch [1] to update those dmesg strings so they match
>>    the way lspci decodes them.  I really liked that update, but we
>>    never quite finished it.  If we're going to do that, it would be
>>    nice to do it first, so we don't publish new sysfs files, then
>>    immediately change the labels used in them.
> Sure, I guess you can push them in the right order.
The way the prints are handled has already been unified in 4.18rc1:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.18-rc1/source/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c#L636

So that patch isn't needed anymore in it's entirety.
>> - IIRC, Tyler's patch had the nice property of changing the strings so
>>    each error name had no spaces, which would make it a little easier
>>    to parse this sysfs file: each line would be a single identifier
>>    followed by a single number (I would probably remove the "=" from
>>    the middle).
>
> Will do.
Would you like me to send a patch with just the string changes?

Thanks,
Tyler
>> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518034285-3543-1-git-send-email-tbaicar@codeaurora.org
>>
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