Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753525Ab3JQKc0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Oct 2013 06:32:26 -0400 Received: from mailout2.w2.samsung.com ([211.189.100.12]:38621 "EHLO usmailout2.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750726Ab3JQKcZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Oct 2013 06:32:25 -0400 X-AuditID: cbfec373-b7f6d6d00000330d-78-525fbcb7c0b3 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:32:18 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Borislav Petkov , "Naveen N. Rao" , "Chen, Gong" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , Aristeu Rozanski Filho , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] ACPI / trace: Add trace interface for eMCA driver Message-id: <20131017073218.11aae607@samsung.com> In-reply-to: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F31D31C28@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <1381473166-29303-1-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com> <1381473166-29303-9-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com> <20131015165435.GA2777@naverao1-tp.ibm.com> <20131015170039.GF7908@pd.tnic> <525D7BCD.7080303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20131015214346.68718bcd.m.chehab@samsung.com> <20131016091640.GA13608@pd.tnic> <20131016073539.5a48f65e.m.chehab@samsung.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F31D31C28@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.19; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFjrGLMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsVy+t/hYN3te+KDDK6+MLJoO/GbzeLzhn9s Frfe2Vos39fPaHF51xw2i/stT9ktzhw6xGjx5sI9FgcOj++tfSwei/e8ZPKYdzLQ48GhzSwe 7/ddZfP4vEkugC2KyyYlNSezLLVI3y6BK6NnyxvWgg72iuMPZ7M0MB5l7WLk5JAQMJG4/uAE lC0mceHeejYQW0hgCaPEhykRXYxcQHYPk8TNnj52kASLgKrEhBntLCA2m4CRxKvGFrBmEQE1 iUuLHzCDNDAL3GSSOP34DiNIQljAS+JUyx0mEJtXwFCi5fY3MJtTIEzi4NUZrBAbzjFLnNra AtTNAXSGk8TWqb4Q9YISPybfA1vGLKAlsXlbEyuELS+xec1b5gmMArOQlM1CUjYLSdkCRuZV jKKlxckFxUnpuUZ6xYm5xaV56XrJ+bmbGCFhX7yD8cUGq0OMAhyMSjy8M5bHBQmxJpYVV+Ye YpTgYFYS4d2yPT5IiDclsbIqtSg/vqg0J7X4ECMTB6dUA6PM1d7ds5t2suyv996zbO9mfUvn b/qshvPvVf93vyUgWeNiYb7osePrRwy/2OJepZpOPFz0gqE/qoTBt+TinRei30ymTN7mKhz4 9NbE1jefhSIM1xyP5bB+aznn+KGNu/ZE58txXs5jWH84sC3mgSnjhHlWr2z7b89WPDvz+z6b i34nBDR5zHKUWIozEg21mIuKEwHAEXoxWQIAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1125 Lines: 29 Em Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:35:32 +0000 "Luck, Tony" escreveu: > > Are there any changes with regards to that, like some enforcement policy > > for BIOS manufacturers to make it right? > > I am using a cricket bat to beat BIOS teams that implement eMCA to make > sure they get the labels in SMBIOS right. :-) :) > It's a non-trivial implementation effort to get all the decoding done for > the eMCA log. It's typically a simple string change to fix the SMBIOS > table ... there has been some resistance - but so far I have been victorious. > Wish me luck as I'm about to engage with another team. Yes, the DMI changes are trivial. Let's hope that they'll do it right. Yet, I think we should keep (at least for a while) a mechanism similar to what EDAC does, allowing those names to be overridden by loading a different table, where needed. Regards, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/