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

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Message-ID: <87shhii4qe.fsf@e105922-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:55:21 +0100
From:   Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
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

Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:35:45AM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> ... would you be open to a patch re-working the ghes driver
>> initialisation to only do the platform driver registration. The the rest
>> of the initialisation (including the apei_osc_setup and related
>> messages) can be performed when the first ghes device gets probed.
>> 
>> Does that sound like a better alternative?
>
> If you split it by doing one logical change per patch so that it is
> obvious what's going on and you don't break existing usage, I don't see
> why not.

Good! I'll try and get the patches out in the next few days.

Thanks.

>
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
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