From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750740AbWFTRuz (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:50:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750741AbWFTRuz (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:50:55 -0400 Received: from lixom.net ([66.141.50.11]:51928 "EHLO mail.lixom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbWFTRuz (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:50:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:50:07 -0500 To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Olof Johansson , paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch 01/20] cell: add RAS support Message-ID: <20060620175007.GE4845@pb15.lixom.net> References: <20060619183315.653672000@klappe.arndb.de> <20060619183404.144740000@klappe.arndb.de> <20060620154304.GD4845@pb15.lixom.net> <200606201826.54290.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200606201826.54290.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Olof Johansson Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:26:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 17:43, Olof Johansson wrote: > > > > > This is a first version of support for the Cell BE "Reliability, > > > Availability and Serviceability" features. > > > > Does it really make sense to do this under a config option? I don't see > > why anyone would not want to know that their machine is about to melt. > > > You can only have that when running on bare metal. Machines that run > on a hypervisor can't run that code. Well, it's harmless to build it in even on hypervisor systems, right? > It probably makes sense to auto-select that option for CONFIG_CELL_BLADE > though. Sounds like a reasonable trade-off. -Olof