Re: [PATCH 3/3] mce: acpi/apei: trace: Enable ghes memory errortrace event

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 08:33:55AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> APEI is just the mechanism that collects the data, not the mechanism
> that reports to userspace.

Both methods add a tracepoint - no difference.

> I really don't see any sense on adding yet-another-way to report the
> very same error.

Well, your suggested way through the layers is this:

Hardware->APEI->EDAC.

His is

Hardware->APEI.

If I can lose the EDAC layer, then this is a clear win.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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