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

Gavin Shan gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Feb 17 09:58:35 AEDT 2016


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:49:08AM +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 07:52:00PM +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.
>>
>
>Russell, Thanks for fixing it up. Since you're at it, Please replace the
>maintainer to yourself. Also, the components mentioned in this file are
>listed in alphabetic order according to their names. As the name of EEH
>is changed, it would be put in front of "Extended Verification Module (EVM)".
>

I agree with Michael as discussed in another thread: we're going to use
"enhanced", not "extended" though some chip datasheet (P7IOC) talks about
"extended error handling".

Russell, please change the maintainer to you and repost.

>>Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
>
>With above issues fixed:
>
>Acked-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>

Thanks,
Gavin

>>---
>>I don't know what kind of things parse MAINTAINERS, and if there's a chance
>>this will break them.  Also, the powerpc tree *is* the right place to send
>>this, right?
>>---
>> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>>diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>index 28eb61b..e5d9134 100644
>>--- a/MAINTAINERS
>>+++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>@@ -4222,7 +4222,7 @@ M:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky at gmail.com>
>> S:	Maintained
>> F:	drivers/media/rc/ene_ir.*
>> 
>>-ENHANCED ERROR HANDLING (EEH)
>>+EXTENDED ERROR HANDLING (EEH)
>> M:	Gavin Shan <shangw at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> L:	linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>> S:	Supported
>>-- 
>>2.7.1
>>
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