Re: [GIT PULLv2] For x86/mce ... enhanced error logs

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:00:35AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Hm, I'm not sure we should move something named after a hardware 
> > > feature into lib/. It's not really generic C library functionality,
> >
> > 
> > Not a hardware feature. CPER stands for Common Platform Error Record 
> > from the UEFI standard. [...]
> 
> By all means UEFI can be considered platform dependent at the moment:
> 
>   comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/arm/
>   comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/arm64/
>   comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/powerpc/
>   comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/mips/
>   comet:~/tip> 
> 
> If a committee says that a name of some standard is 'common platform' does 
> not make it so. lib/ is mostly kept for mathematical, C-library alike 
> functionality you see in CS textbooks.
> 
> > As Chen Gong points out, drivers/acpi isn't the right place ... so if 
> > not lib/ ... then where?
> 
> drivers/uefi/?

Hmm, we do have drivers/firmware/, even drivers/firmware/efi/ subdir and
since this thing is part of the UEFI spec, we probably should stick it
there...

Matt, heads up^^^.

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