linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] ACPI / trace: Add trace interface for eMCA driver

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Message-id: <20131017073218.11aae607@samsung.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:32:18 -0300
From:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@...sung.com>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Aristeu Rozanski Filho <arozansk@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] ACPI / trace: Add trace interface for eMCA driver

Em Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:35:32 +0000
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com> escreveu:

> > Are there any changes with regards to that, like some enforcement policy
> > for BIOS manufacturers to make it right?
> 
> I am using a cricket bat to beat BIOS teams that implement eMCA to make
> sure they get the labels in SMBIOS right. :-)

:)

> It's a non-trivial implementation effort to get all the decoding done for
> the eMCA log.  It's typically a simple string change to fix the SMBIOS
> table ... there has been some resistance - but so far I have been victorious.
> Wish me luck as I'm about to engage with another team.

Yes, the DMI changes are trivial. Let's hope that they'll do it right.

Yet, I think we should keep (at least for a while) a mechanism similar to
what EDAC does, allowing those names to be overridden by loading a different
table, where needed.

Regards,
Mauro
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