Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] ACPI, x86: Extended error log driver for x86 platform

[Naveen N. Rao]

On 10/20/2013 01:51 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 03:06:15AM -0400, Chen Gong wrote:
> > Oh, yes it is. Furthermore, it reminds me where is the best place
> > to put cper.c from I write this patch series. CPER really doesn't
> > dpend on APEI even ACPI. Maybe lib/ ia an option. I can update this
> > patch and if it is OK, I can add another separate patch to change this
> > dependency. Make sense?
>
> Yeah, for some reason it is part of the UEFI spec but APEI uses it too.
>
> Well, I guess you can add it there as "default n" and have the rest of
> the code select it in Kconfig.

Yup, I think that would be a good idea to just separate out the CPER 
stuff from the APEI code, though I think your enhanced MCA logging code 
will need to depend on both CPER and ACPI since you use the ACPI 
structures as well.


Thanks,
Naveen

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