Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751834AbdHGOvD (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2017 10:51:03 -0400 Received: from g4t3426.houston.hpe.com ([15.241.140.75]:36858 "EHLO g4t3426.houston.hpe.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751247AbdHGOvB (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2017 10:51:01 -0400 From: "Kani, Toshimitsu" To: "bp@alien8.de" CC: "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "lenb@kernel.org" , "mchehab@kernel.org" , "tony.luck@intel.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" , "rjw@rjwysocki.net" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] ACPI / APEI: add OSC APEI bit check for ghes_edac Thread-Topic: [PATCH v2 3/7] ACPI / APEI: add OSC APEI bit check for ghes_edac Thread-Index: AQHTDKTz8eNAH6BISUyEA4riB59+h6JzjpuAgAEb3wCAAI+vAIADwwYA Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 14:50:58 +0000 Message-ID: <1502116882.2042.126.camel@hpe.com> References: <20170803215753.30553-1-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <20170803215753.30553-4-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <20170804034417.GC12082@nazgul.tnic> <1501879218.2042.115.camel@hpe.com> <20170805051434.GB23214@nazgul.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20170805051434.GB23214@nazgul.tnic> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=toshi.kani@hpe.com; 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x-forefront-prvs: 0392679D18 x-forefront-antispam-report: SFV:NSPM;SFS:(10019020)(6009001)(39410400002)(39400400002)(39850400002)(39840400002)(39450400003)(39860400002)(189002)(24454002)(377424004)(199003)(6486002)(77096006)(7736002)(6512007)(305945005)(50986999)(5660300001)(6506006)(76176999)(54356999)(93886004)(101416001)(4326008)(8676002)(81156014)(5640700003)(6436002)(81166006)(1730700003)(54906002)(8936002)(66066001)(6916009)(478600001)(2900100001)(68736007)(2950100002)(25786009)(2906002)(14454004)(36756003)(2501003)(229853002)(33646002)(103116003)(106356001)(105586002)(53936002)(189998001)(97736004)(6246003)(38730400002)(3660700001)(110136004)(102836003)(3280700002)(6116002)(2351001)(3846002)(86362001)(217873001);DIR:OUT;SFP:1102;SCL:1;SRVR:DF4PR84MB0186;H:DF4PR84MB0187.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM;FPR:;SPF:None;PTR:InfoNoRecords;MX:1;A:1;LANG:en; spamdiagnosticoutput: 1:99 spamdiagnosticmetadata: NSPM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-ID: <85FD59142186884BB4D43433EDEB93CC@NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 07 Aug 2017 14:50:58.0428 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 105b2061-b669-4b31-92ac-24d304d195dc X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: DF4PR84MB0186 X-OriginatorOrg: hpe.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by nfs id v77Ep7Hg013882 Content-Length: 576 Lines: 14 On Sat, 2017-08-05 at 07:14 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 08:49:51PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote: > > Some firmware features can be enabled / disabled in BIOS.  While > > HPE firmware does not allow to disable FF, it's possible that other > > vendors might allow such and still have the same OEM ID info. > > Yeah, we don't protect ourselves against "might allow". Either you > have an *actual* example for such platform or you don't and then you > don't need this check. No, I do not any actual example. Will drop this patch. Thanks, -Toshi