Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introduce interface to report BIOS bugs

[Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>]

Thomas Renninger wrote:

I approve of the basic idea. Some nits in the implementation.

First shouted macros look ugly. Can you use something lower case
similar to dev_printk()?

> +
> +#define 	FW_EMERG	KERN_EMERG  /* System cannot boot */
> +#define 	FW_ALERT 	KERN_ALERT  /* Risk of HW or data damage, 
> +					       e.g. overheating, dmraid */
> +#define 	FW_CRIT 	KERN_CRIT   /* A major device is not functional
> +					       e.g. hpet, lapic, network... */
> +#define 	FW_ERR		KERN_ERR    /* A major device is not working
> +					       as expected, e.g. cpufreq stuck
> +					       to lowest freq, lowered
> +					       performance, increased power
> +					       consumption... */

These should probably have another string after the KERN_* severities appended
because KERN_* doesn't make it into the syslog log files or serial
console logs and you would lose the severity then.


> +config REPORT_FIRMWARE_BUGS
> +	bool "Report Firmware Bugs"
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  This option will make the kernel print out all firmware bug messages
> +	  it finds. This especially is very useful on ACPI systems where
> +	  potentially a lot firmware bugs can happen and should be reported.
> +	  
> +	  Always say yes here unless memory really matters.

I don't think this should be a CONFIG.  If someone really wants to save
that much memory they can disable printk.

-Andi