Re: [PATCH 3/5 -v2] acpi, apei, HEST table parsing
From: Huang Ying
Date: Thu Dec 24 2009 - 03:59:23 EST
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
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