From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>, "Liu\,
Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@intel.com>,
tony.luck@intel.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
"xen-devel\@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add mcelog support for xen platform
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:27:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2aa21o7pk.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120421104502.GB17005@aftab.osrc.amd.com> (Borislav Petkov's message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:45:02 +0200")
Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> writes:
> Because, if you'd hooked into it, just imagine one fine day, when we
> remove mcelog support, what screaming the xen people will be doing when
> mcelog doesn't work anymore.
That's simple. /dev/mcelog is a widely used user space ABI and Linux
does never remove widely used user space ABIs, so this can never happen.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
"Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@intel.com>,
tony.luck@intel.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add mcelog support for xen platform
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:27:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2aa21o7pk.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120421104502.GB17005@aftab.osrc.amd.com> (Borislav Petkov's message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:45:02 +0200")
Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> writes:
> Because, if you'd hooked into it, just imagine one fine day, when we
> remove mcelog support, what screaming the xen people will be doing when
> mcelog doesn't work anymore.
That's simple. /dev/mcelog is a widely used user space ABI and Linux
does never remove widely used user space ABIs, so this can never happen.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 13:29 [PATCH 1/3] Add mcelog support for xen platform Liu, Jinsong
2012-04-20 18:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-20 20:00 ` Liu, Jinsong
2012-04-20 20:00 ` Liu, Jinsong
2012-04-21 4:14 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-21 10:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-23 2:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 6:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-23 15:06 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 15:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-23 16:23 ` Luck, Tony
2012-04-23 16:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 16:17 ` Liu, Jinsong
2012-04-23 15:27 ` Luck, Tony
2012-04-23 15:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 16:17 ` Luck, Tony
2012-04-23 16:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 15:43 ` Liu, Jinsong
2012-04-23 16:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-23 17:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-23 16:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-23 17:03 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 17:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-24 8:27 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-04-24 8:27 ` Andi Kleen
2012-04-25 8:11 ` Ingo Molnar
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