Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:04:51 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Extended H/W error log driver |
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:37:22PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote: > That's me raising both my hands :)
:-)
> If you feel so strongly about it. "Corrected Error" is an oxymoron. > It's really just the hardware notifying us.
Yeah, but we can't write
"We just corrected a single-bit flip in DIMM array <foo> - it was supposed to be X but now it is Y. Don't worry, this bit flip had no effect on current architectural machine state."
either.
I just don't want to call a "Hardware Error" a "Hardware Event". Besides, an IRQ is a hardware event too, for example. You can see where I'm getting with this...
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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