linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI/APEI: Add BERT data driver

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Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:29:55 -0700
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Boris Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>,
        "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI/APEI: Add BERT data driver

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> What about /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/ and then one file per table
> under it with the same name as the table file under tables/ ?

"data" works. ACPI table names are all upper-case, so it
can't conflict. Any programs that scan the whole directory
have to already skip "dynamic", so they likely would not
be confused by the appearance of a second directory.

For BERT there is only one blob of data. So naming it the
same as the table is fine.  Maybe other tables might have
more than one thing? If so, they could use the table name
as a prefix, or make a subdirectory. We can cross that
bridge if anyone finds additional useful things to add.

> So in particular for BERT the data would be in
> /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/BERT ?

Ok. Will re-spin the patch with these names.

-Tony