ACPI Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) support
authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tue, 18 May 2010 06:35:17 +0000 (14:35 +0800)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Thu, 20 May 2010 02:40:24 +0000 (22:40 -0400)
commit801eab8118f61255d8e2be35939c572042618742
tree60e433b615370b2281cfca1ba9980dcda0aa5cab
parentaffb72c3a8984ba55e055b0a0228c3ea1a056758
ACPI Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) support

Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) is used to report some hardware errors
notified via SCI, mainly the corrected errors. Some APEI Generic
Hardware Error Source (GHES) may use SCI on hardware error device to
notify hardware error to kernel.

After receiving notification from ACPI core, it is forwarded to all
listeners via a notifier chain. The listener such as APEI GHES should
check corresponding error source for new events when notified.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/Kconfig
drivers/acpi/Makefile
drivers/acpi/hed.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/acpi/hed.h [new file with mode: 0644]