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Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac

From "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac
Date 2017-07-19 19:00 +0200
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On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 18:22 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 04:10:07PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> > I do prefer to avoid any white / black listing.  But I do not see
> > how it solves the buggy DMI/SMBIOS info as an example of firmware
> > bugs we may have to deal with.
> 
> So how do you want to deal with this?
> 
> Maintain an evergrowing whitelist of platforms which are OK and then
> the moment a new platform comes along, you send a patch to add it to
> that whitelist?
> 
> I'm sure you can see the problems with that approach.

Since ghes_edac has not been used for a long time, I have a feeling
that not so many vendors want to use it.  In the case of HPE, we do not
need to update with each platform since "HPE" "Server" will cover all
platforms we need.

Thanks,
-Toshi

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Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-07-18 23:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-07-19 08:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-07-19 18:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-07-19 18:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-07-19 19:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-07-20 06:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-07-20 16:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-07-20 17:10 +0200
                RE: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2017-07-20 19:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-07-20 19:10 +0200
                RE: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2017-07-20 19:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2017-07-20 20:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> - 2017-07-19 21:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac "Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2017-07-19 22:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-07-20 06:30 +0200

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