Re: [PATCH 3/4] ACPI / APEI: Drop uninformative messages during boot

[Punit Agrawal]

Hi Boris,

Apologies for the delayed response. I somehow managed to lose updates on
this thread.

Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 06:50:51PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> "Firmware does not support APEI firmware first mode"
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
> I guess the simplest would be to add a third state to that hest_disable
> to denote "HEST table not found" and then exit ghes_init() early, based on
> checking it.

Although simple, won't it make the already convoluted code flow more
so. Instead in addition to not setting hest_disable when the table is
not found ...

>
> Otherwise ghes_init() inits a bunch of things which you probably don't
> want on a platform which doesn't support APEI.

... would you be open to a patch re-working the ghes driver
initialisation to only do the platform driver registration. The the rest
of the initialisation (including the apei_osc_setup and related
messages) can be performed when the first ghes device gets probed.

Does that sound like a better alternative?

>
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