[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: rename EEH from "enhanced" to "extended" error handling

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Feb 16 21:26:08 AEDT 2016


On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 19:52 +1100, Russell Currey wrote:

> Incredibly, IBM online documentation for EEH uses "extended error handling"
> and "enhanced error handling" to refer to the same thing, in different
> places.  In other parts of the kernel, namely the EEH documentation (found
> in Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt), it's referred to as
> "extended", and in my opinion "extended" makes more sense for what EEH
> does.
>
> The only place "enhanced error handling" shows up in the kernel is in
> MAINTAINERS, so fix it.

Unfortunately the document that pretty much defines it (PAPR) uses "Enhanced":

  5.4.1 Enhanced I/O Error Handling (EEH) Option


And online I see that the AIX manuals use Enhanced:

  https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_72/com.ibm.aix.kernextc/eeh_intro.htm


So I'm going to nack this and ask you to send the inverse patch, that switches
the kernel references to Enhanced.


> ---
> I don't know what kind of things parse MAINTAINERS, and if there's a chance
> this will break them.

Only scripts/get_maintainer.pl that I know of, and I don't think it cares about
the heading much, so it would be safe to change.

> Also, the powerpc tree *is* the right place to send this, right?

Yep, patches to MAINTAINERS for powerpc specific stuff should go via me.

cheers



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