Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Do not fail einj_init() on faux_device_create() failure

[Cheatham, Benjamin]

On 6/6/2025 10:32 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> CXL has a symbol dependency on einj_core.ko, so if einj_init() fails then
> cxl_core.ko fails to load. Prior to the faux_device_create() conversion,
> einj_probe() failures were tracked by the einj_initialized flag without
> failing einj_init().
> 
> Revert to that behavior and always succeed einj_init() given there is no
> way, and no pressing need, to discern faux device-create vs device-probe
> failures.
> 
> This situation arose because CXL knows proper kernel named objects to
> trigger errors against, but acpi-einj knows how to perform the error
> injection. The injection mechanism is shared with non-CXL use cases. The
> result is CXL now has a module dependency on einj-core.ko, and init/probe
> failures are handled at runtime.
> 
> Fixes: 6cb9441bfe8d ("ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Transition to the faux device interface")
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Cheatham <Benjamin.Cheatham@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thanks for sending this out!

Reviewed-by: Ben Cheatham <benjamin.cheatham@xxxxxxx>