Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac

From: Kani, Toshimitsu
Date: Tue Jul 25 2017 - 19:00:51 EST


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