From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI, APEI, ERST debug support
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:48:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280998113.2744.83.camel@yhuang-dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008051027.37573.trenn@suse.de>
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 16:27 +0800, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Monday 02 August 2010 09:48:25 Huang Ying wrote:
> > This patch adds debugging/testing support to ERST. A misc device is
> > implemented to export raw ERST read/write/clear etc operations to user
> > space. With this patch, we can add ERST testing support to
> > linuxfirmwarekit ISO (linuxfirmwarekit.org) to verify the kernel
> > support and the firmware implementation.
>
> Shouldn't this show up in debugfs?
We do not do that because we want to export some "raw" operations of
ERST to user space, and using the interface in some automated testing
program in linuxfirmwarekit. That is, this is a interface mostly for
machine but human.
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-05 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 7:48 [PATCH 0/4] ACPI, APEI, Some fixes and ERST debug support for 2.6.36 Huang Ying
2010-08-02 7:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPI, APEI, Fix a typo of error path of apei_resources_request Huang Ying
2010-08-08 19:07 ` Len Brown
2010-08-02 7:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] ACPI, APEI, Rename CPER and GHES severity constants Huang Ying
2010-08-08 19:07 ` Len Brown
2010-08-02 7:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] ACPI, APEI, Manage GHES as platform devices Huang Ying
2010-08-08 19:07 ` Len Brown
2010-08-02 7:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] ACPI, APEI, ERST debug support Huang Ying
2010-08-05 8:27 ` Thomas Renninger
2010-08-05 8:48 ` Huang Ying [this message]
2010-08-08 19:07 ` Len Brown
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