linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] ACPI / APEI: Drop uninformative messages during boot

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Message-ID: <20170721132731.GA5041@nazgul.tnic>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:27:31 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lorenzo.pieralisi@....com,
        sudeep.holla@....com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ACPI / APEI: Drop uninformative messages during boot

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 06:50:51PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> "Firmware does not support APEI firmware first mode"
> 
> Thoughts?

I guess the simplest would be to add a third state to that hest_disable
to denote "HEST table not found" and then exit ghes_init() early, based on
checking it.

Otherwise ghes_init() inits a bunch of things which you probably don't
want on a platform which doesn't support APEI.

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    Boris.

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