linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RAS/CEC: Add debugfs switch to disable at run time

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Message-ID: <20190422170529.GG21457@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:05:29 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RAS/CEC: Add debugfs switch to disable at run time

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 04:43:58PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >> Rebooting isn't popular in many end user situations. Many CSP (cloud
> >> service providers) vehemently hate the idea of rebooting.
> >
> > I meant disable in Kconfig - not build it in at all.
> 
> If rebooting is bad, then re-compiling and rebooting is 100x worse. :-)

I think we're talking past each other here: I mean disable the CEC
*forever* and *never* use it. Use only a userspace agent and log errors
with it.

Makes sense?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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