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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] acpi, apei: add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:05:11 +0100
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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.

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