Re: [PATCH v12 1/2] ACPI / APEI: Add a notifier chain for unknown (vendor) CPER records

2020-07-14 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 03:09:00PM +0100, Shiju Jose wrote: > CPER records describing a firmware-first error are identified by GUID. Does the spec really connect "firmware-first" and CPER records? Are there non-firmware-first CPER records? This sentence suggests that firmware-first CPER records

[PATCH v12 1/2] ACPI / APEI: Add a notifier chain for unknown (vendor) CPER records

2020-07-13 Thread Shiju Jose
CPER records describing a firmware-first error are identified by GUID. The ghes driver currently logs, but ignores any unknown CPER records. This prevents describing errors that can't be represented by a standard entry, that would otherwise allow a driver to recover from an error. The UEFI spec cal