linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Cleanup CPER memory error output format

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Message-ID: <1381855341.22110.21.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:42:21 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>,
	Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lance Ortiz <lance.ortiz@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Cleanup CPER memory error output
 format

On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 14:29 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Once we exposed it to userspace, we cannot simply assume
> that nothing is using it.

Yes, we can.

No guarantees are made about dmesg output.

If guarantees were made, no typo could ever be fixed
nor could any conversion from printk to dev_<level>
be done.

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