On Sun, 27 Oct, at 12:01:48PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:00:35AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Tony Luck <tony.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hm, I'm not sure we should move something named after a hardware > > > > feature into lib/. It's not really generic C library functionality, > > > > > > > > > Not a hardware feature. CPER stands for Common Platform Error Record > > > from the UEFI standard. [...] > > > > By all means UEFI can be considered platform dependent at the moment: > > > > comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/arm/ > > comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/arm64/ > > comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/powerpc/ > > comet:~/tip> git grep -i uefi arch/mips/ > > comet:~/tip> > > > > If a committee says that a name of some standard is 'common platform' does > > not make it so. lib/ is mostly kept for mathematical, C-library alike > > functionality you see in CS textbooks. > > > > > As Chen Gong points out, drivers/acpi isn't the right place ... so if > > > not lib/ ... then where? > > > > drivers/uefi/? > > Hmm, we do have drivers/firmware/, even drivers/firmware/efi/ subdir and > since this thing is part of the UEFI spec, we probably should stick it > there...
I've certainly no problem with moving it under drivers/firmware/efi/, but please don't create a new subdirectory in drivers/ just for this. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
