From: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
To: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powernv/hmi: Use the "unknown" checkstop type as a fallback
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:36:22 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E79F56.6050006@au1.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458018919.30802.4.camel@russell.cc>
On 15/03/16 16:15, Russell Currey wrote:
>> Would it be useful to print xstop_type in the unknown case?
>
> I don't think so - if there's a new checkstop type, specific handling for
> it should be implemented in the kernel, and if you're getting unknown
> checkstops that are bringing down your machine you should be looking at the
> OPAL firmware log anyway, which would contain details if there was
> something "new".
That's fair, would primarily help debugging in the rather corner case of
new skiboot, old kernel, and no access to the OPAL log...
--
Andrew Donnellan Software Engineer, OzLabs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-15 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-15 3:26 [PATCH] powernv/hmi: Use the "unknown" checkstop type as a fallback Russell Currey
2016-03-15 3:41 ` Daniel Axtens
2016-03-15 3:56 ` Andrew Donnellan
2016-03-15 5:15 ` Russell Currey
2016-03-15 5:36 ` Andrew Donnellan [this message]
2016-03-15 5:40 ` Russell Currey
2016-03-15 9:28 ` Michael Ellerman
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