RE: [PATCH 2/2] EDAC/ghes: Modularize ghes_edac driver to remove the dependency on ghes

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2022 5:35 AM
> To: Kani, Toshi <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Justin He <Justin.He@xxxxxxx>; Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>; Len
> Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>; James Morse <James.Morse@xxxxxxx>; Tony
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> Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>; Shuai Xue
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] EDAC/ghes: Modularize ghes_edac driver to remove
> the dependency on ghes
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:09:41PM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> > Since then, the change below enabled ghes_edac on Arm without this
> > known-good platforms check.
> >
> > commit eaa3a1d46 ("EDAC, ghes: Make platform-based whitelisting
> > x86-only")
> 
> Bah, I had forgotten about that one...
> 
> In any case, edac_mc_add_mc* is too late in the init path - that check should
> happen as the very first thing in the driver init function.
> 
> And looking at the ARM64 EDAC drivers, they're only a couple: thunderx,
> xgene, bluefield, dmc-520... And I'd still prefer if their maintainers explicitly
> ACK such a change to call ghes_get_devices() (for a lack of a better idea) and
> not enable ghes_edac on them blindly.
Okay, will include above changes in next version, thanks for the reminder.

--
Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)






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