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

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:00:40 +0000
From:   "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac

On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 20:30 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
 :
> 
> So I don't want to break existing users and thus make only explicitly
> known platforms load ghes_edac. In the current case, the HPE
> machines.  All the rest will simply use the platform drivers and
> nothing will change for them.
> 
> Later we'll probably need to revisit this decision but right now and
> with all things considered, the whitelist seems - as ugly as it is -
> the most workable solution for all the different use cases and
> machines...

Agreed.  I will verify OEMID info of our other platforms, and add APEI
OSC check before calling ghes_edac_register().

Thanks,
-Toshi