linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULLv2] For x86/mce ... enhanced error logs

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Date:	Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:22:15 +0000
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	X86-ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULLv2] For x86/mce ... enhanced error logs

On Sun, 27 Oct, at 12:01:48PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:00:35AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Hm, I'm not sure we should move something named after a hardware 
> > > > feature into lib/. It's not really generic C library functionality,
> > >
> > > 
> > > Not a hardware feature. CPER stands for Common Platform Error Record 
> > > from the UEFI standard. [...]
> > 
> > By all means UEFI can be considered platform dependent at the moment:
> > 
> >   comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/arm/
> >   comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/arm64/
> >   comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/powerpc/
> >   comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/mips/
> >   comet:~/tip> 
> > 
> > If a committee says that a name of some standard is 'common platform' does 
> > not make it so. lib/ is mostly kept for mathematical, C-library alike 
> > functionality you see in CS textbooks.
> > 
> > > As Chen Gong points out, drivers/acpi isn't the right place ... so if 
> > > not lib/ ... then where?
> > 
> > drivers/uefi/?
> 
> Hmm, we do have drivers/firmware/, even drivers/firmware/efi/ subdir and
> since this thing is part of the UEFI spec, we probably should stick it
> there...

I've certainly no problem with moving it under drivers/firmware/efi/,
but please don't create a new subdirectory in drivers/ just for this.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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