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Message-ID: <20250106155733.GAZ3v9bQspKvdi3lZE@fat_crate.local>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 16:57:33 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: shiju.jose@...wei.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 02/19] EDAC: Add scrub control feature

On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 12:09:58PM +0000, shiju.jose@...wei.com wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/Makefile b/drivers/edac/Makefile
> index f9cf19d8d13d..a162726cc6b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/edac/Makefile
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EDAC)			:= edac_core.o
>  
>  edac_core-y	:= edac_mc.o edac_device.o edac_mc_sysfs.o
>  edac_core-y	+= edac_module.o edac_device_sysfs.o wq.o
> +edac_core-y	+= scrub.o

You're not being serious here - this scrub gunk is enabled by default on
*everything*?

So the main user of this is going to be CXL, AFAICT, so the scrubbing gunk
should depend at least on it or so. Definitely not unconditionally enabled on
every build.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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