Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] ACPI / APEI: add OSC APEI bit check for ghes_edac

From: Kani, Toshimitsu
Date: Mon Aug 07 2017 - 10:51:07 EST


On Sat, 2017-08-05 at 07:14 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 08:49:51PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> > Some firmware features can be enabled / disabled in BIOS.ÂÂWhile
> > HPE firmware does not allow to disable FF, it's possible that other
> > vendors might allow such and still have the same OEM ID info.
>
> Yeah, we don't protect ourselves against "might allow". Either you
> have an *actual* example for such platform or you don't and then you
> don't need this check.

No, I do not any actual example. Will drop this patch.

Thanks,
-Toshi