RE: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac
From: Luck, Tony
Date: Thu Jul 20 2017 - 12:56:22 EST
>> Yes, the following message is shown on HP systems. Please note that
>> WHEA is a Windows-defined interface.
>
> Ok, so let's couple ghes_edac loading to that and see how far we could
> go. I guess we should add checks for that to the major x86 EDAC drivers
> to not load and this way ghes_edac will be the only driver loading.
>
> Tony, how does that sound?
Add a module parameter to those edac drivers that can override the check
and let them load anyway. I'm not paranoid, I just assume that there is a BIOS
out there that sets the OSC/WHEA bits, but isn't generating useful GHES logs.
-Tony