X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fedac.txt;h=06f8f46692dc5e26cebdd7e6251ec38f308b9c1f;hb=a242b41dedfe0fd51ab1c906daa703c09b196744;hp=8eda3fb664166726163bf59565c9d52c76af6c79;hpb=b8cd9d056bbc5f2630ab1787dbf76f83bbb517c0;p=~andy%2Flinux diff --git a/Documentation/edac.txt b/Documentation/edac.txt index 8eda3fb6641..06f8f46692d 100644 --- a/Documentation/edac.txt +++ b/Documentation/edac.txt @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ first time, it was renamed to 'EDAC'. The bluesmoke project at sourceforge.net is now utilized as a 'staging area' for EDAC development, before it is sent upstream to kernel.org -At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site, is a series of quilt patches against -recent kernels, stored in a SVN respository. For easier downloading, there +At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site is a series of quilt patches against +recent kernels, stored in a SVN repository. For easier downloading, there is also a tarball snapshot available. ============================================================================ @@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ the vendor should tie the parity status bits to 0 if they do not intend to generate parity. Some vendors do not do this, and thus the parity bit can "float" giving false positives. -In the kernel there is a pci device attribute located in sysfs that is +In the kernel there is a PCI device attribute located in sysfs that is checked by the EDAC PCI scanning code. If that attribute is set, -PCI parity/error scannining is skipped for that device. The attribute +PCI parity/error scanning is skipped for that device. The attribute is: broken_parity_status