Re: [PATCH 2/2] EDAC/ghes: Modularize ghes_edac driver to remove the dependency on ghes

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Aug 17 2022 - 16:56:52 EST


On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:22:58PM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> ghes_edac is used on Arm. This original issue happened on a non-HPE
> platform.

Remember: ghes_edac loads only on known-good platforms - not the other
way around. If ARM folks wanna use it there, then I'd expect explicit
enablement to do so.

> to keep it protected from any edac driver.

You got this all backwards. If anything, the kernel should be protected
from ghes.

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