Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] acpi, apei, ghes: Introduce ACPI_APEI_NMI to make NMI error notification a GHES feature.

From: Robert Richter
Date: Thu Jun 12 2014 - 06:32:54 EST


On 28.05.14 09:39:27, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> +config ACPI_APEI_NMI
> + bool "NMI error notification support"
> + default y
> + depends on ACPI_APEI_GHES && X86
> + help
> + Firmware first mode can use NMI notification mechanism to report errors
> + to operating system. This feature is currently supported by X86
> + architecture only.
> +

This selection is not necessary. I don't see why one should select
this at all. It's either there for an arch or not. Just use ARCH_HAS_
style and and hard select ARCH_HAS_ACPI_APEI_NMI for x86. There is no
need for the ACPI_APEI_GHES dependency then.

-Robert
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