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Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 21:10:30 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc:     Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] acpi: apei: Warn when GHES marks correctable
 errors as "fatal"
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On Thu 2018-04-26 13:20:57, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 03:39:51PM -0500, Alexandru Gagniuc wrote:
> > There seems to be a culture amongst BIOS teams to want to crash the
> > OS when an error can't be handled in firmware. Marking GHES errors as
> > "fatal" is a very common way to do this.
> > 
> > However, a number of errors reported by GHES may be fatal in the sense
> > a device or link is lost, but are not fatal to the system. When there
> > is a disagreement with firmware about the handleability of an error,
> > print a warning message.


> > +
> > +	if ((sev >= GHES_SEV_PANIC) && (ghes_actual_severity(ghes) < sev)) {
> > +		pr_warn("FIRMWARE BUG: Firmware sent fatal error that we were able to correct");
> > +		pr_warn("BROKEN FIRMWARE: Complain to your hardware vendor");
> 
> Pasting the same comment from last time since you missed it:
> 
> "No, I don't want any of that crap issuing stuff in dmesg and then people
> opening bugs and running around and trying to replace hardware.

We want to see warnings. Maybe they can be toned done. We even have
dedicated distros for firmware testing.

> Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

Good mailing practices -- limit use of four letter words on public lists.

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