Re: [PATCH] ACPI: APEI: move edac_init ahead of ghes platform drv register

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 09:36:13PM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> Platforms with ACPI GHES support should use ghes_edac. This is the
> case on Arm. The x86 side has additional platform ID check to protect
> from legacy buggy GHES FW existed before ghes_edac enablement.

Sounds to me like we should put all that logic in ghes.c and out of
ghes_edac and the EDAC drivers will query it by doing upon load:

<edac_driver>_init:

	if (ghes_edac_driver_is_preferred())
		return -ENODEV;

And then ghes_edac can become a normal driver module again.

Thx.

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