Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:01:48 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULLv2] For x86/mce ... enhanced error logs |
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On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:00:35AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.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...
Matt, heads up^^^.
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