From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Huang Ying Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI, APEI, ERST debug support Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:48:33 +0800 Message-ID: <1280998113.2744.83.camel@yhuang-dev> References: <1280735305-15379-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <1280735305-15379-5-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <201008051027.37573.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:21032 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760001Ab0HEIsg (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 04:48:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201008051027.37573.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: Len Brown , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andi Kleen , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 16:27 +0800, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Monday 02 August 2010 09:48:25 Huang Ying wrote: > > This patch adds debugging/testing support to ERST. A misc device is > > implemented to export raw ERST read/write/clear etc operations to user > > space. With this patch, we can add ERST testing support to > > linuxfirmwarekit ISO (linuxfirmwarekit.org) to verify the kernel > > support and the firmware implementation. > > Shouldn't this show up in debugfs? We do not do that because we want to export some "raw" operations of ERST to user space, and using the interface in some automated testing program in linuxfirmwarekit. That is, this is a interface mostly for machine but human. Best Regards, Huang Ying