Re: [PATCH v4] acpi, apei: add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jan 19 2016 - 05:05:53 EST


On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 03:09:40PM +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
> My personal opinion is :
> This driver will be used on various platforms, this marker can tell user there
> is some bug in firmware, maybe user can disable BERT next time to avoid
> this noise before develop have chance to fix it.
> And BIOS vendors also can get info from that, and fix their crap :-)
>
> If user see this, maybe he should disable BERT on his platform temporary.
>
> Is that a good reason to keep it?

I guess.

Ok, let's leave it in, we can always remove it later. It's not like the
kernel is BIOS and cannot be changed anymore :-)

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Boris.

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