Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] acpi: apei: Drop panic() on fatal errors policy

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun May 27 2018 - 05:36:55 EST


On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 5:53 PM, Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> FFS (firmware-first) handling through APEI seems to have developed a
> policy to panic() on any fatal errors. This policy is completely
> independent of the non-FFS case. It is also inconsistent with how the
> native error handlers, a number of which will recover the system from
> fatal errors.
>
> The purpose of this series is to obsolete this idiotic policy, with
> the motivation to enable identical handling of PCIe errors to native
> reporting.
>
>
> Rafael, this is copypaste from the previous patch series. I suspect
> you might have missed it last time, because you asked questions which
> were answered here. I've included it so you don't have to go digging
> old emails:

I didn't miss it, but I didn't like your answers.

Anyway, as a rule, no GHES/APEI patches are applied without an ACK
from either Boris or Tony, so you need to talk to them about the
patches.

Thanks,
Rafael