From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8486EC433EF for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:00:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230346AbiGTKAE (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:00:04 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54728 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229492AbiGTKAE (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:00:04 -0400 Received: from frasgout.his.huawei.com (frasgout.his.huawei.com [185.176.79.56]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4516C12A84; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 03:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fraeml713-chm.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.18.147.207]) by frasgout.his.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4Lnrh201lXz67bf9; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:56:34 +0800 (CST) Received: from lhreml710-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.61) by fraeml713-chm.china.huawei.com (10.206.15.32) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:59:59 +0200 Received: from localhost (10.81.205.121) by lhreml710-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.61) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:59:50 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:59:46 +0100 From: Jonathan Cameron To: Dan Williams CC: , , , , , "Ben Widawsky" Subject: Re: [PATCH 36/46] cxl/region: Add interleave ways attribute Message-ID: <20220720105946.00007fc2@Huawei.com> In-Reply-To: <62d72cf43c74_11a1662945b@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch> References: <165603869943.551046.3498980330327696732.stgit@dwillia2-xfh> <20220624041950.559155-11-dan.j.williams@intel.com> <20220630144420.000005b5@Huawei.com> <62cb6f9a74b33_3535162944e@dwillia2-xfh.notmuch> <20220719154718.000077ec@Huawei.com> <62d72cf43c74_11a1662945b@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch> Organization: Huawei Technologies Research and Development (UK) Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.0.0 (GTK+ 3.24.29; i686-w64-mingw32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.81.205.121] X-ClientProxiedBy: lhreml754-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.204) To lhreml710-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.61) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:15:16 -0700 Dan Williams wrote: > Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > No, I would prefer that as far as the Linux implementation is concerned > > > the software-guide does not exist. In the sense that the Linux > > > implementation choices supersede and are otherwise a superset of what > > > the guide recommends. > > > > ah. I phrased that badly. I just meant lift the argument as a comment rather > > than a cross reference. > > Oh, you mean promote it to an actual rationale comment rather than just > parrot what the code is doing? Yeah, that's a good idea. yup