linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add x86 RAS people

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Message-ID: <20110617212450.GA2577@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:24:51 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add x86 RAS people

On Fri 2011-06-17 15:50:56, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 09:27:58AM -0400, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Tue 2011-06-14 18:08:54, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > Announce the new RAS infrastructure maintainers. The file patterns below
> > > will change after we start the restructuring.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> > >  
> > > +X86 RAS INFRASTRUCTURE
> > > +M:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> > 
> > this would be great place to explain "ras"...
> 
> Wikipedia has a basic overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability,_Availability_and_Serviceability
>

This is what I was looking for. Can we modify MAINTAINERS to say

X86 RELIABILITY AVAILABILITY AND SERVICEABILITY (RAS) INFRASTRUCTURE
M:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

?
 
> Our idea is to make error collection and reporting much more easy to
> configure and much easily manageable now that reliability features are
...
> So things like that, I'm pretty sure I'm leaving something out but you
> should be getting the idea...

Actually I got the idea when I saw "mcelog" in file paths, but... :-)

									pavel

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