From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757356Ab1F0I2X (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:28:23 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:49663 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757314Ab1F0I0F (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:26:05 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,431,1304319600"; d="scan'208";a="19009076" From: Huang Ying To: Len Brown Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Tony Luck , ying.huang@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org Subject: [PATCH -v2 1/4] ACPI, APEI, GHES, Prevent GHES to be built as module Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:25:57 +0800 Message-Id: <1309163160-3201-2-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.5.4 In-Reply-To: <1309163160-3201-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> References: <1309163160-3201-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying --- drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ config ACPI_APEI error injection. config ACPI_APEI_GHES - tristate "APEI Generic Hardware Error Source" + bool "APEI Generic Hardware Error Source" depends on ACPI_APEI && X86 select ACPI_HED help