Re: [PATCH] ACPI/APEI: Add BERT data driver

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> What about /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/ and then one file per table
>> under it with the same name as the table file under tables/ ?
>
> "data" works. ACPI table names are all upper-case, so it
> can't conflict. Any programs that scan the whole directory
> have to already skip "dynamic", so they likely would not
> be confused by the appearance of a second directory.
>
> For BERT there is only one blob of data. So naming it the
> same as the table is fine.  Maybe other tables might have
> more than one thing? If so, they could use the table name
> as a prefix, or make a subdirectory. We can cross that
> bridge if anyone finds additional useful things to add.

Actually, there already are multiple SSDTs on the majority of systems
and the corresponding files under tables/ are called SSDT1, SSDT2
etc., so we just need to follow the existing convention.

Thanks,
Rafael