Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:23:01 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] ACPI, APEI, GHES, Prevent GHES to be built as module |
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:16:24PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > GHES (Generic Hardware Error Source) is used to process hardware error > notification in firmware first mode. But because firmware first mode > can be turned on but can not be turned off, it is unreasonable to > unload the GHES module with firmware first mode turned on. To avoid > confusion, this patch makes GHES can be enable/disable in > configuration time, but not built as module and unload at run time.
It's better to keep it as a module, but disable unloading. You can do that with a __module_get(THIS_MODULE) in the init code when FFM is detected.
-Andi
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