From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ACPI mailing list <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5 -v2] acpi, apei, HEST table parsing
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:44:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091218184443.GD1470@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260429419.15264.395.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>
On Thu 2009-12-10 15:16:59, Huang Ying wrote:
> HEST describes error sources in detail; communicating operational
> parameters (i.e. severity levels, masking bits, and threshold values)
> to OS as necessary. It also allows the platform to report error
> sources for which OS would typically not implement support (for
> example, chipset-specific error registers).
>
> HEST information may be needed by other subsystems. For example, HEST
> PCIE AER error source information describes whether a PCIE root port
> works in "firmware first" mode, this is needed by general PCIE AER
> error subsystem. So a public HEST tabling parsing interface is
> provided.
Perhaps you can remove unused hest_exit()?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-10 7:16 [PATCH 3/5 -v2] acpi, apei, HEST table parsing Huang Ying
2009-12-18 18:44 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-12-24 8:59 ` Huang Ying
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