From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@intel.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org>,
Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com>,
tbaicar@codeaurora.org, rruigrok@codeaurora.org, "Abdulhamid,
Harb" <harba@qti.qualcomm.com>,
G Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org>,
Al Stone <al.stone@linaro.org>,
Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Linaro ACPI Mailman List <linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org>,
Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] acpi, apei: add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:05:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160119100511.GA15503@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADyBb7ueFUUYz_O8-+-FNybJz_dGvMpBh0FdJ-99jNcHikvRSw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 03:09:40PM +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
> My personal opinion is :
> This driver will be used on various platforms, this marker can tell user there
> is some bug in firmware, maybe user can disable BERT next time to avoid
> this noise before develop have chance to fix it.
> And BIOS vendors also can get info from that, and fix their crap :-)
>
> If user see this, maybe he should disable BERT on his platform temporary.
>
> Is that a good reason to keep it?
I guess.
Ok, let's leave it in, we can always remove it later. It's not like the
kernel is BIOS and cannot be changed anymore :-)
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-19 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-08 13:45 [PATCH v4] acpi, apei: add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support fu.wei
2016-01-16 19:16 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <569CFFD0.5050102@codeaurora.org>
2016-01-18 16:08 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <569D232C.2000903@codeaurora.org>
2016-01-19 7:12 ` Fu Wei
2016-01-19 7:09 ` Fu Wei
2016-01-19 10:05 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
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