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

[Kani, Toshi]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 2:56 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:22:58PM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> > ghes_edac is used on Arm. This original issue happened on a non-HPE
> > platform.
> 
> Remember: ghes_edac loads only on known-good platforms - not the other
> way around. If ARM folks wanna use it there, then I'd expect explicit
> enablement to do so.

Well, that was the case originally, which is why 301375e76432 was made
for x86 chipset-specific edac drivers only at that time.

Since then, the change below enabled ghes_edac on Arm without this
known-good platforms check.

commit eaa3a1d46 ("EDAC, ghes: Make platform-based whitelisting x86-only")

Toshi