RE: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Tue Jul 18 2017 - 18:13:49 EST


> The question is: does the platform do this disabling now?
>
> Tony, I'm looking at sb_edac and there we don't do something like that
> or maybe I'm missing it.

Historically we've had complaints that sb_edac won't load that have been
tracked to BIOS hiding one of the (many) PCI devices that it needs. But
device hiding is orthogonal to providing GHES error records. A BIOS might
do that, but I don't know that anyone intentionally does so.

-Tony