[PATCH] powernv/hmi: Use the "unknown" checkstop type as a fallback

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Tue Mar 15 16:36:22 AEDT 2016


On 15/03/16 16:15, Russell Currey wrote:
>> Would it be useful to print xstop_type in the unknown case?
>
> I don't think so - if there's a new checkstop type, specific handling for
> it should be implemented in the kernel, and if you're getting unknown
> checkstops that are bringing down your machine you should be looking at the
> OPAL firmware log anyway, which would contain details if there was
> something "new".

That's fair, would primarily help debugging in the rather corner case of 
new skiboot, old kernel, and no access to the OPAL log...

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