linux-kernel - Re: [EDAC ABI v13 04/25] events/hw_event: Create a Hardware Events Report Mecanism (HERM)

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Message-ID: <20120510134136.GC31257@aftab.osrc.amd.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 May 2012 15:41:36 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [EDAC ABI v13 04/25] events/hw_event: Create a Hardware Events
 Report Mecanism (HERM)

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:16:31AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Nah, this is not marketing speak. HERM is not a trademark. amd64_edac,
> on the other hand, is using a trademark on his name. If we use your
> logic, this would need to be renamed to something else, to avoid using
> a "marketing speak".

I'm not even going to dignify that with an answer because it is a bunch
of bullshit and you know it.

> We need some name to differentiate between the broken EDAC core where
> modern memory controllers are not properly represented and reports
> errors on fake csrows/channels from the EDAC+HERM core that will
> properly provide the error information to where it really belongs.

A kernel version or a commit id is not enough here I guess.

> In other words, HERM is just an acronym[1] to the version to point to
> where EDAC starts to work fine with modern memory controllers.

Seems to me you're desperately trying to prove your point for having
this HERM thing by coming up with a bunch of bogus arguments.

And I'm still waiting for a real, technical reason which legitimizes
calling a tracepoint something special.

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