Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 3/9] EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module to remove the dependency on ghes

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Aug 27 2022 - 01:23:06 EST


On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 10:42:13PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Servers) wrote:
> 4. In the help text for each module that looks for GHES and refuses to load
> (e.g., EDAC_AMD64), add a sentence:
>
> This module does not load on a system supporting ACPI GHES.

It is not "system supporting ACPI GHES." - it is on a system which is
*known* to have a more or less tested GHES implementation. The notoriety
of firmware RAS brokenness is well known.

So please stop this - there's a world outside HP BIOS.

None of this is needed for this patchset.

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