linux-kernel - Re: Extended H/W error log driver

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Message-ID: <20131017130451.GG5036@pd.tnic>
Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:04:51 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	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>
Subject: Re: Extended H/W error log driver

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:37:22PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> That's me raising both my hands :)

:-)

> If you feel so strongly about it. "Corrected Error" is an oxymoron.
> It's really just the hardware notifying us.

Yeah, but we can't write

"We just corrected a single-bit flip in DIMM array <foo> - it was
supposed to be X but now it is Y. Don't worry, this bit flip had no
effect on current architectural machine state."

either.

I just don't want to call a "Hardware Error" a "Hardware Event".
Besides, an IRQ is a hardware event too, for example. You can see where
I'm getting with this...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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