On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > drivers/acpi/apei/ overlaps and duplicates drivers/edac/. We dont want two > facilities, two ABIs, two sets of behavior. erst-dbg even defines a /dev node with > two ioctls, and a debugfs file to read/write records ... As mentioned above these 4-letter names from from the ACPI specification. ERST is perhaps the dumbest name of them all - "Error Record Serialization Table" is ACPI-speak for platform level non-volatile memory. This code simply provides a mechanism for Linux to stash some information in nvram before the system is reset, and to retrieve it after the reboot. The naming could be better - but I don't see any overlap with EDAC here. -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
