RE: [PATCH v2] ACPI, APEI, EINJ: Relax platform response timeout to 1 second.

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Mon Oct 25 2021 - 11:59:54 EST


>> No, I don't. EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism to develop
>> and debug firmware code and hardware RAS feature. While we test on Arm
>> platform, it cannot meet the original timeout limit. Therefore, we send
>> this patch to relax the upper bound of timeout. In order to facilitate
>> other platforms to encounter the same problems, we expose timeout as a
>> configurable parameter in user space.
>
> What's your opinion about this interface?

I can't see a case where anyone would use it. So it is just useless fluff.

I say drop it from the next rev of the patch.

-Tony