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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:05:04 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 04:55:59PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Add a module parameter to those edac drivers that can override the check
> and let them load anyway.  I'm not paranoid, I just assume that there is a BIOS
> out there that sets the OSC/WHEA bits, but isn't generating useful GHES logs.

Or add that parameter to edac_core.ko and let it control which EDAC
driver gets loaded? Something like

edac=ignore_ghes

or so. And then the other EDAC drivers query it.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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