Re: [PATCH v3] ACPI / APEI: Suppress message if HEST not present

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Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:20:20PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> According to the ACPI specification, firmware is not required to provide
>> the Hardware Error Source Table (HEST). When HEST is not present, the
>> following superfluous message is printed to the kernel boot log -
>> 
>> [    3.460067] GHES: HEST is not enabled!
>> 
>> Extend hest_disable variable to track whether the firmware provides this
>> table and if it is not present skip any log output. The existing
>> behaviour is preserved in all other cases.
>> 
>> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 
>> Changes in v3:
>> * Grouped hest_disable status checking into a switch/case for clarity
>> 
>>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c |  7 ++++++-
>>  drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c | 13 +++++++------
>>  include/acpi/apei.h      |  8 +++++++-
>>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Hopefully Rafael can pick the patch for the upcoming merge window.

>
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
> SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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