RE: [PATCH v4 5/8] EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module to remove the dependency on ghes

[Kani, Toshi]

On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 1:40 AM, Jia He wrote:
> @@ -454,7 +437,7 @@ int ghes_edac_register(struct ghes *ghes, struct
> device *dev)
>  		pr_info("This system has a very crappy BIOS: It doesn't even
> list the DIMMS.\n");
>  		pr_info("Its SMBIOS info is wrong. It is doubtful that the error
> report would\n");
>  		pr_info("work on such system. Use this driver with
> caution\n");
> -	} else if (idx < 0) {
> +	} else if (ghes_edac_force_load) {

This change causes the following messages to start showing up on Arm.
Is that what you intend to do?

The messages can be avoided by not setting the force flag on Arm unconditionally.
This will need some change to the flag check in ghes_edac_unregister() though.

>  		pr_info("This EDAC driver relies on BIOS to enumerate
> memory and get error reports.\n");
>  		pr_info("Unfortunately, not all BIOSes reflect the memory
> layout correctly.\n");
>  		pr_info("So, the end result of using this driver varies from
> vendor to vendor.\n");

 Toshi