Re: [PATCH v7 10/25] ACPI / APEI: Tell firmware the estatus queue consumed the records

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 06:09:28PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> We can return on ENOENT out earlier, as nothing needs doing in that case. Its
> what the GHES_TO_CLEAR spaghetti is for, we can probably move the ack thing into
> ghes_clear_estatus(), that way that thing means 'I'm done with this memory'.

That actually sounds nice and other code in the kernel already does
that: when a failure has been encountered during reading status, you
free up resources right then and there. No need for passing retvals back
and forth. And this would simplify the spaghetti. Which is something
good(tm) on its own!

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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