Re: [PATCH v2 24/24] EDAC, ghes: Disable legacy API for ARM64

James Morse
2019-06-26T09:33:43Z

On 24/06/2019 16:09, Robert Richter wrote:
> James Morse: "I'm all for removing/warning-its-broken it when
> ghes_edac is in use."

Thanks for taking that out of context. The very next word was 'but':
http://lore.kernel.org/r/c08290d8-3690-efa9-3bc7-37f8b1fdbfd4@arm.com

followed by details of the user-space that is still using this.

> Let's just disable legacy API for the ghes driver on arm64. Though, I
> don't agree with it as there still could be some userland tools that

Not could. Are. Someone went and found them for you.

> use this interface that cannot be used any longer after a transition
> from x86 to arm64.