linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes

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Message-ID: <1500911226.2042.60.camel@hpe.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:56:27 +0000
From:   "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@....com>
To:     "bp@...en8.de" <bp@...en8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac

On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 17:37 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:25:34PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
 :
> 
> > We've been providing this model for many years now.
> 
> Dude, relax, I'm only trying to point out to you that there are
> customers who want to see *every* error and thus track how their
> hardware behaves. And that for those customers it is probably worth
> considering exposing that info and providing a switch to disable that
> dumbing of the RAS functionality in the BIOS so that people can
> decide for themselves. That's all.

Yes, Mauro has already pointed this out.  As I replied to him, we do
have a separate series of platforms that do not have built-in RAS, and
report all errors.  Such customers can simply choose them.  They do not
need to pay for built-in RAS.

The model w/ built-in RAS provides warranty & full support.  As I said,
it's a different model. 

Thanks,
-Toshi