linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] acpi, apei: add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support

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Message-ID: <20160119100511.GA15503@pd.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:05:11 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
Cc:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...el.com>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>, tbaicar@...eaurora.org,
	rruigrok@...eaurora.org,
	"Abdulhamid, Harb" <harba@....qualcomm.com>,
	G Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linaro ACPI Mailman List <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] acpi, apei: add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 03:09:40PM +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
> My personal opinion is :
> This driver will be used on various platforms, this marker can tell user there
> is some bug in firmware, maybe user can disable BERT next time to avoid
> this noise before develop have chance to fix it.
> And  BIOS vendors also can get info from that, and fix their crap :-)
> 
> If user see this, maybe he should disable BERT on his platform temporary.
> 
> Is that a good reason to keep it?

I guess.

Ok, let's leave it in, we can always remove it later. It's not like the
kernel is BIOS and cannot be changed anymore :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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