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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jul 19 2017 - 12:22:23 EST


On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 04:10:07PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> I do prefer to avoid any white / black listing. But I do not see how
> it solves the buggy DMI/SMBIOS info as an example of firmware bugs we
> may have to deal with.

So how do you want to deal with this?

Maintain an evergrowing whitelist of platforms which are OK and then the
moment a new platform comes along, you send a patch to add it to that
whitelist?

I'm sure you can see the problems with that approach.

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