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

[Aristeu Rozanski]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 06:22:04PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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?

That would also need to keep an eye on versions. A newer version of BIOS
on a whitelisted platform might be broken.

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Aristeu