Re: [PATCH v6 5/8] EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module to remove the dependency on ghes

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 08:26:16AM +0000, Justin He wrote:
> If there is no ghes_present flag.
> What if ghes.disable is passed to kernel boot parameter and then ghes_edac is
> loaded by modprobe?
> Thus, ghes_edac can be loaded even if ghes is disabled. (ghes_dev list is null)

Yes, and what happens if ghes_dev is NULL?

The other drivers would do in their init function:

	struct list_head *ghes_devs;

	ghes_devs = ghes_get_devices();
	if (ghes_devs)
		return -ENODEV;

	/* Continue init */

and then load in that case because user has disabled GHES and thus no
ghes_edac either. So the platform-specific one loads.

Right?

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