Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:44:47 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5 -v2] acpi, apei, HEST table parsing |
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On Thu 2009-12-10 15:16:59, Huang Ying wrote: > HEST describes error sources in detail; communicating operational > parameters (i.e. severity levels, masking bits, and threshold values) > to OS as necessary. It also allows the platform to report error > sources for which OS would typically not implement support (for > example, chipset-specific error registers). > > HEST information may be needed by other subsystems. For example, HEST > PCIE AER error source information describes whether a PCIE root port > works in "firmware first" mode, this is needed by general PCIE AER > error subsystem. So a public HEST tabling parsing interface is > provided.
Perhaps you can remove unused hest_exit()?
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