Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] EDAC: update edac printk wrappers to use printk_ratelimited.

From: Tyler Hicks
Date: Wed May 05 2021 - 19:01:57 EST


On 2021-05-06 00:55:00, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 05:43:57PM -0500, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> > This is x86-specific
>
> That's because it is used by x86 currently. It shouldn't be hard to use
> it on another arch though as the machinery is pretty generic.
>
> > and not applicable in our situation.
>
> What is your situation? ARM?

Yes, though I'm not sure if those additional features are
important/useful enough for us to generalize that driver. The main
motivation here was just to prevent storage/network from being flooded
by obviously-bad nodes that haven't been offlined yet. :)

Lei and others on cc will need to evaluate porting cec.c and what it
will gain them. Thanks again.

Tyler

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