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Message-ID: <20110622154948.GA3219@srcf.ucam.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:49:48 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ACPI, APEI, Add APEI _OSC support On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:21:20AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > At least on some of my testing machine, generic _OSC call will not > return any error even it does not support APEI bit. So I think > sometimes it may be helpful to printk something here. To avoid > confusion, can we change the message as follow. > > - generic _OSC succeeded, APEI _OSC failed: APEI firmware first mode is > enabled by APEI bit. > - generic _OSC failed, APEI _OSC succeeded: APEI firmware first mode is > enabled by APEI _OSC. "WHEA _OSC", I think. The UUID here is part of the Microsoft spec, not the APEI one. > - both succeeded: APEI firmware first mode is enabled by APEI bit and > APEI _OSC. > - both failed: Failed to enable APEI firmware first mode! Otherwise, looks good. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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