From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754506AbdGSQ46 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:56:58 -0400 Received: from g4t3427.houston.hpe.com ([15.241.140.73]:43434 "EHLO g4t3427.houston.hpe.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751991AbdGSQ4z (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:56:55 -0400 From: "Kani, Toshimitsu" To: "bp@alien8.de" CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "mchehab@kernel.org" , "rjw@rjwysocki.net" , "srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com" , "tony.luck@intel.com" , "lenb@kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Thread-Topic: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac Thread-Index: AQHS/0lGOl4i5ss6QUSn88C0VF1rJqJZF6OAgAAj5gCAANq7AIAAkZmAgACp84CAAAXuAIAABvkA Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:56:17 +0000 Message-ID: <1500482822.2042.31.camel@hpe.com> References: <20170717215912.26070-1-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <20170717215912.26070-4-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <20170718060007.GB8736@nazgul.tnic> <20170718080836.GB8372@nazgul.tnic> <1500412288.2042.25.camel@hpe.com> <20170719055235.GD26030@nazgul.tnic> <1500480051.2042.27.camel@hpe.com> <20170719162204.GE16124@nazgul.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20170719162204.GE16124@nazgul.tnic> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: authentication-results: alien8.de; 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spamdiagnosticoutput: 1:99 spamdiagnosticmetadata: NSPM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-ID: <95E20CF07872CA41AB455F393FCC27DA@NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 19 Jul 2017 16:56:17.7158 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 105b2061-b669-4b31-92ac-24d304d195dc X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: DF4PR84MB0188 X-OriginatorOrg: hpe.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by nfs id v6JGv5hG013974 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