Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add x86 RAS people

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jun 17 2011 - 17:24:39 EST


On Fri 2011-06-17 15:50:56, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 09:27:58AM -0400, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Tue 2011-06-14 18:08:54, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > Announce the new RAS infrastructure maintainers. The file patterns below
> > > will change after we start the restructuring.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > +X86 RAS INFRASTRUCTURE
> > > +M: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > this would be great place to explain "ras"...
>
> Wikipedia has a basic overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability,_Availability_and_Serviceability
>

This is what I was looking for. Can we modify MAINTAINERS to say

X86 RELIABILITY AVAILABILITY AND SERVICEABILITY (RAS) INFRASTRUCTURE
M: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

?

> Our idea is to make error collection and reporting much more easy to
> configure and much easily manageable now that reliability features are
...
> So things like that, I'm pretty sure I'm leaving something out but you
> should be getting the idea...

Actually I got the idea when I saw "mcelog" in file paths, but... :-)

pavel

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