linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1011242316390.637@x980>
Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:19:08 -0500 (EST)
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
Cc:	huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Generic hardware error reporting support


> If you (and the code) are absolutely certain that a particular error instance
> is totally due to the BIOS, then stick the words "BIOS ERROR" into the 
> printk().

FYI, trenn added some printk prefixes for this case a while back;

#define FW_BUG          "[Firmware Bug]: "
#define FW_WARN         "[Firmware Warn]: "
#define FW_INFO         "[Firmware Info]: "

cheers,
-Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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