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From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	ying.huang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi/apei/erst: Remove "Error" from initialization and disable output
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 07:29:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0fb91e9d-5446-aa6e-2eea-c455538c4c1a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170718052627.GA8741@nazgul.tnic>



On 07/18/2017 01:26 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 08:21:23PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>> The word "Error" is used by many QA groups and users as a keyword to
>> indicate that there is a critical failure during system bootup. The ESRT
>> code would interact better with these scripts
> 
> ... which is a thinly veiled way of saying: my scripts can't
> differentiate between an error being reported and the word "error" so
> let's "fix" the kernel.
> 
> Jeez. Fix your scripts instead.
> 

Boris, I'd agree with you but this is one of those places where I think we
should bend a bit.  Error and Warning are indications of a failure, and we
should consider special casing them.  I would agree if this were one or two
scripts but I've heard complaints from 3 different companies about this.

It's a minor fix in the grander scheme of things.

P.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-18 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-18  0:21 [PATCH] acpi/apei/erst: Remove "Error" from initialization and disable output Prarit Bhargava
2017-07-18  5:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-18 11:29   ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
2017-07-18 14:07     ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-18 15:46   ` Linda Knippers
2017-07-18 16:38     ` Borislav Petkov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-05-02 13:14 Prarit Bhargava

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