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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] ACPI / APEI: Suppress message if HEST not present
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Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:20:20PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> According to the ACPI specification, firmware is not required to provide
>> the Hardware Error Source Table (HEST). When HEST is not present, the
>> following superfluous message is printed to the kernel boot log -
>>
>> [ 3.460067] GHES: HEST is not enabled!
>>
>> Extend hest_disable variable to track whether the firmware provides this
>> table and if it is not present skip any log output. The existing
>> behaviour is preserved in all other cases.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> * Grouped hest_disable status checking into a switch/case for clarity
>>
>> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 7 ++++++-
>> drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c | 13 +++++++------
>> include/acpi/apei.h | 8 +++++++-
>> 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Thanks!

Hopefully Rafael can pick the patch for the upcoming merge window.

>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)

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