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Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 22:03:06 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 05:52:18PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Are you arguing for the nonsensical "it should load" case because it
> is simply easier this way? How hard is that "jump through hoops" thing
> anyway?

Let's see: the following patches add something called
GET_SUPPORTED_FEATURES which is used to detect whether the system has
patrol scrub functionality etc.

Then there's ras2_acpi_init() which checks for a RAS2 ACPI table.

Are you saying that checking for those two things in the init function
is jumping through hoops?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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