From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>,
linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix some typo errors in ras.rst
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 12:21:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eaf7072f-16a8-7202-9c47-606afca7433c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200505160308.GA25446@zn.tnic>
On 5/5/20 12:03 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 08:48:16AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> Usually a 64-bit system refers to the width of a pointer. Here, it's
>> referring to the width of the memory system, which is rather confusing.
>> How about "In the above example" instead of "So, on 64 bit systems".
> Yes, that should not talk about 64-bit systems but about the length of
> the word the memory controller uses to create the ECC check bits out of.
>
> That whole doc needs checking/fixing.
I am not knowledgeable enough to check/fix the whole document. This
patch is motivated primarily by the incorrect "74 bits" total width that
I saw. I will send a v2 to make the suggested edit. I will leave it to
you to do the full document check.
Cheers,
Longman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-05 15:10 [PATCH] doc: Fix some typo errors in ras.rst Waiman Long
2020-05-05 15:32 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-05-05 15:50 ` Waiman Long
2020-05-05 15:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-05 16:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-06 16:21 ` Waiman Long [this message]
2020-05-06 16:19 ` Waiman Long
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