Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC, ghes: Make it a proper module

From: Kani, Toshimitsu
Date: Wed Jul 26 2017 - 15:25:24 EST


On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 15:17 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:27:12 +0000
:
> I didn't try to inject an error, as I'm not sure if EINJ feature is
> enabled on this BIOS. Probably not.

I believe it has EINJ support.

> At least on this machine, I very much prefer to use sb_edac driver.
>
> As I explained earlier in the previous thread, I just don't if the
> BIOS would be doing the right thing for CE, as I don't know its
> internal algorithm.Â
>
> Also, as I'm maintaining the EDAC userspace tools (rasdaemon),
> I would really love to get a few CE error reports there from time to
> time, as it could be used to check if rasdaemon is doing do the right
> thing to them.
>
> So, I very much prefer to not have any threshold at all there at
> BIOS.

Using sb_edac does not change the fact that it is FF. I do not think
you'd see normal CEs on your box.

Thanks,
-Toshi