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From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org>
To: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, lenb@kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	bp@alien8.de, m.chehab@samsung.com, bp@suse.de,
	linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] acpi, apei, ghes: Introduce ACPI_APEI_NMI to make NMI error notification a GHES feature.
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:08:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5399A650.2020602@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140612103238.GB22583@rric.localhost>

On 12.06.2014 12:32, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 28.05.14 09:39:27, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
>> +config ACPI_APEI_NMI
>> +	bool "NMI error notification support"
>> +	default y
>> +	depends on ACPI_APEI_GHES && X86
>> +	help
>> +	  Firmware first mode can use NMI notification mechanism to report errors
>> +	  to operating system. This feature is currently supported by X86
>> +	  architecture only.
>> +
>
> This selection is not necessary. I don't see why one should select
> this at all. It's either there for an arch or not. Just use ARCH_HAS_
> style and and hard select ARCH_HAS_ACPI_APEI_NMI for x86. There is no
> need for the ACPI_APEI_GHES dependency then.
>

It does make sense to me, will address your comment appropriately.

Tomasz

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-12 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-28  7:39 [PATCH v2 0/5] APEI: Make APEI architecture independent Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-28  7:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] apei, mce: Factor out APEI architecture specific MCE calls Tomasz Nowicki
2014-06-12 10:23   ` Robert Richter
2014-06-12 13:07     ` Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-28  7:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] acpi, apei, ghes: Introduce ACPI_APEI_NMI to make NMI error notification a GHES feature Tomasz Nowicki
2014-06-12 10:32   ` Robert Richter
2014-06-12 13:08     ` Tomasz Nowicki [this message]
2014-05-28  7:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] acpi, apei, ghes: Introduce more generic mechanism to init/deinit GHES error notifications Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-28  7:39 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] apei, ghes, nmi: Factor out NMI arch-specific calls Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-28  7:39 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] acpi, apei, ghes: Factor out ioremap virtual memory for IRQ and NMI context Tomasz Nowicki
2014-06-12  8:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] APEI: Make APEI architecture independent Tomasz Nowicki

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