linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 3/9] EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module to remove the dependency on ghes

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Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:22:48 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Elliott, Robert (Servers)" <elliott@....com>
Cc:     Jia He <justin.he@....com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 3/9] EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module
 to remove the dependency on ghes

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 10:42:13PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Servers) wrote:
> 4. In the help text for each module that looks for GHES and refuses to load 
> (e.g., EDAC_AMD64), add a sentence:
> 
>   This module does not load on a system supporting ACPI GHES.

It is not "system supporting ACPI GHES." - it is on a system which is
*known* to have a more or less tested GHES implementation. The notoriety
of firmware RAS brokenness is well known.

So please stop this - there's a world outside HP BIOS.

None of this is needed for this patchset.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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