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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/5 -v2] acpi, apei, HEST table parsing
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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