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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Hardware Error Kernel Mini-Summit
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:59:00 -0300
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Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 13:44 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> IMO, the first
>> step is to provide an error core integrated to perf, and then start
>> integrating the several error systems around it.
> 
> Why integrated to perf?

That's the original plan. It were suggested by Ingo and Thomas at LKML. Borislav
also send a more technical proposal about it.

It actually makes sense, since some sorts of errors may affect performance
(those non-fatal errors that are auto-recovered). Also, using debugfs and the
same kind of logic used by perf to filter errors seems pertinent for hardware 
errors. As the actual patches were not written yet, the details on how those 
things will integrate will depend on further analysis.

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Cheers,
Mauro