From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mce: acpi/apei: trace: Enable ghes memory error trace event Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:38:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20130812123813.GD18018@pd.tnic> References: <1375986471-27113-1-git-send-email-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1375986471-27113-4-git-send-email-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130808163822.67e0828a@samsung.com> <20130810180322.GC4155@pd.tnic> <20130812083355.47c1bae8@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130812083355.47c1bae8@samsung.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" , tony.luck@intel.com, bhelgaas@google.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, rjw@sisk.pl, lance.ortiz@hp.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 08:33:55AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > APEI is just the mechanism that collects the data, not the mechanism > that reports to userspace. Both methods add a tracepoint - no difference. > I really don't see any sense on adding yet-another-way to report the > very same error. Well, your suggested way through the layers is this: Hardware->APEI->EDAC. His is Hardware->APEI. If I can lose the EDAC layer, then this is a clear win. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --