From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Naveen N. Rao" Subject: Re: Extended H/W error log driver Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:40:40 +0530 Message-ID: <20131015191040.GA4347@naverao1-tp.ibm.com> References: <1381473166-29303-1-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com> <20131011080427.GC18719@pd.tnic> <20131014064940.GD12189@gchen.bj.intel.com> <20131014105533.GF4009@pd.tnic> <20131015040731.GA887@gchen.bj.intel.com> <20131015092851.GA7908@pd.tnic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e23smtp07.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.140]:44581 "EHLO e23smtp07.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759432Ab3JOTLF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:11:05 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp07.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 05:11:03 +1000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Tony Luck Cc: Borislav Petkov , Chen Gong , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-acpi On 2013/10/15 09:15AM, Tony Luck wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > We can even add a hint for the user like: > > > > "Above errors have been corrected by the hardware and require no further action." > > > > Btw, this is valid for both dmesg and trace event output. > > > > Because from my experience so far people just scream: "Look, I just had > > an MCE" withot even reading what it says. And this just upsets support > > people for no valid reason at all. > > "Like", "+1", "metoo" ... or whatever it is we do on LKML to indicate > we approve. +2 ;) While at it, I wonder if we're better off calling these "Hardware events" rather than "Hardware errors". Thanks, Naveen