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Date:	Sun, 27 Oct 2013 08:00:35 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	X86-ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULLv2] For x86/mce ... enhanced error logs


* 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/?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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