Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:12:35 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EDAC-AMD64: what is the ecc_msg good for ?
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 12:06:49AM +0100, Gabriel C wrote:
> while doing some testings with a EPYC box I notice
> these strange messages when a Node is disabled.
> 
> I really do think the message is confusing since
> we tell 'Node X: ... disabled' followed by a
> INFO on the edac driver which tells the driver will not load.

And that is confusing because?

> Also even worse , we suggest to use ecc_enable_override then,
> which can cause wrose things.. We really should not suggest
> something like this by default.

That is an remnant from the old times. Family 0x17 and newer doesn't
allow that anymore.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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