RE: [PATCH 2/2] EDAC/ghes: Modularize ghes_edac driver to remove the dependency on ghes

[Kani, Toshi]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 2:50 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 01:39:32AM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> > Yes, but the impact is not necessarily limited to these modules.
> 
> The impact is limited only to the modules which would otherwise
> potentially load on a HP system which advertizes as "HPE ", "Server ".
> 
> You're the only user of ghes_edac. So please state which drivers you
> want blocked from loading on those platforms and where ghes_edac should
> load instead.

ghes_edac is used on Arm.  This original issue happened on a non-HPE
platform.  I am not sure if this chipset-specific edac vs ghes_edac ordering
issue is x86-specific.

It may be safer to add the ghes check to edac_mc_add_mc_with_groups()
to keep it protected from any edac driver.

Toshi