[PATCH 3/6 v7] acpi/ghes: Make GHES select ACPI_APEI_PCIEAER

Hanjun Guo guohanjun at huawei.com
Fri Nov 21 13:12:11 AEDT 2025


On 2025/11/11 23:42, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue,  4 Nov 2025 19:22:34 +0100
> "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fabio.m.de.francesco at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> GHES handles the PCI Express Error Section and also the Compute Express
>> Link (CXL) Protocol Error Section. Two of its functions depend on the
>> APEI PCIe AER logging/recovering support (ACPI_APEI_PCIEAER).
>>
>> Make GHES select ACPI_APEI_PCIEAER and remove the conditional
>> compilation from the body of two static functions that handle the CPER
>> Error Sections mentioned above.
> 
> Hi Fabio,
> 
> I'm not seeing a justification here for the change and there may be
> APEI platforms without PCI support.  So is this just to simplify things or
> is there a functional reason that it is necessary?

I have the same worry, embedded system with ACPI support may don't have
PCI. And for APEI, AER is one of the error type and optional.

Thanks
Hanjun


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