Re: [PATCH v3] ACPI / APEI: Suppress message if HEST not present

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:20:20PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> According to the ACPI specification, firmware is not required to provide
> the Hardware Error Source Table (HEST). When HEST is not present, the
> following superfluous message is printed to the kernel boot log -
> 
> [    3.460067] GHES: HEST is not enabled!
> 
> Extend hest_disable variable to track whether the firmware provides this
> table and if it is not present skip any log output. The existing
> behaviour is preserved in all other cases.
> 
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v3:
> * Grouped hest_disable status checking into a switch/case for clarity
> 
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c |  7 ++++++-
>  drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c | 13 +++++++------
>  include/acpi/apei.h      |  8 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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