Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] ACPI / APEI: Add a notifier chain for unknown (vendor) CPER records

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Shiju Jose wrote:
> 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 calls these 'Non-standard Section Body' (N.2.3 of
> version 2.8).
> 
> Add a notifier chain for these non-standard/vendor-records. Callers
> must identify their type of records by GUID.
> 
> Record data is copied to memory from the ghes_estatus_pool to allow
> us to keep it until after the notifier has run.
> 
> Co-developed-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>

Co-developed-by: is going _in conjunction with_ SoB tag which is missing here.

> Signed-off-by: Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@xxxxxxxxxx>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko