Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v2] ACPI, APEI, EINJ: Relax platform response timeout to 1 second. | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:59:08 +0000 |
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>> No, I don't. EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism to develop >> and debug firmware code and hardware RAS feature. While we test on Arm >> platform, it cannot meet the original timeout limit. Therefore, we send >> this patch to relax the upper bound of timeout. In order to facilitate >> other platforms to encounter the same problems, we expose timeout as a >> configurable parameter in user space. > > What's your opinion about this interface?
I can't see a case where anyone would use it. So it is just useless fluff.
I say drop it from the next rev of the patch.
-Tony
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