NACK: [PATCH][SRU BIONIC] UBUNTU: [Config]: set CONFIG_EDAC_DEBUG=y for ARM64

[Manoj Iyer]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Seth Forshee wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 03:14:12PM -0500, Manoj Iyer wrote:
>> Testing EDAC requires EDAC_DEBUG to be enabled. ARM64 server customers
>> currently need to rebuild Ubuntu kernels with this config option to test
>> EDAC support. Please consider this SRU to Bionic to enable EDAC_DEBUG
>> config option in the kernel.
>>
>> A patch to enable EDAC_DEBUG was acked and applied to cosmic recently.
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2018-May/092595.html
>
> Based on the testing in cosmic this is producing a lot of dmesg spam
> that isn't useful. I think something needs to be done to at least reduce
> the spam, or eliminate it entirely if the debugfs files is all that's
> required.

It produces 'spam' output only on ThunderX hardware, on ThunderX2 and 
QDF2400 it is relatively quiet.

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