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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] ACPI, APEI, GHES, Prevent GHES to be built as module
    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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