From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756229AbZLXI7P (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754955AbZLXI7N (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:13 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:20269 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754693AbZLXI7M (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:59:12 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,316,1257148800"; d="scan'208";a="226327412" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5 -v2] acpi, apei, HEST table parsing From: Huang Ying To: Pavel Machek Cc: kernel list , ACPI mailing list In-Reply-To: <20091218184443.GD1470@ucw.cz> References: <1260429419.15264.395.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> <20091218184443.GD1470@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:59:10 +0800 Message-ID: <1261645150.6908.28.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 02:44 +0800, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Thu 2009-12-10 15:16:59, Huang Ying wrote: > > HEST describes error sources in detail; communicating operational > > parameters (i.e. severity levels, masking bits, and threshold values) > > to OS as necessary. It also allows the platform to report error > > sources for which OS would typically not implement support (for > > example, chipset-specific error registers). > > > > HEST information may be needed by other subsystems. For example, HEST > > PCIE AER error source information describes whether a PCIE root port > > works in "firmware first" mode, this is needed by general PCIE AER > > error subsystem. So a public HEST tabling parsing interface is > > provided. > > Perhaps you can remove unused hest_exit()? OK. I will remove it. Best Regards, Huang Ying