Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:38:13 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, tony.luck@intel.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mce: acpi/apei: trace: Enable ghes memory error
 trace event
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 08:33:55AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> APEI is just the mechanism that collects the data, not the mechanism
> that reports to userspace.

Both methods add a tracepoint - no difference.

> I really don't see any sense on adding yet-another-way to report the
> very same error.

Well, your suggested way through the layers is this:

Hardware->APEI->EDAC.

His is

Hardware->APEI.

If I can lose the EDAC layer, then this is a clear win.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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