Re: [RFC PATCH v4 2/3] acpi: apei: Rename ghes_severity() to ghes_cper_severity()

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri May 11 2018 - 12:20:12 EST


On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:12:24AM -0500, Alex G. wrote:
> Because the GHES structure uses CPER values, but all the code is written
> to use GHES_SEV_ values. GHES_SEV_ is a made up enum, specifically for
> linux.

Again, what does that even matter?

They're defines in both cases. The *actual* value means shit.

Ah, I see it:

...
sec_sev = ghes_sec_pcie_severity(gdata);

worst_sev = max(worst_sev, sec_sev);


Yeah, no, you can't do that. No apples and oranges comparisons.

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