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From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To:     Eric Badger <ebadger@purestorage.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] EDAC/mc_sysfs: Print MC-scope sysfs counters unsigned
Thread-Topic: [PATCH] EDAC/mc_sysfs: Print MC-scope sysfs counters unsigned
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> This is cosmetically nicer for counts > INT32_MAX, and aligns the
> MC-scope format with that of the lower layer sysfs counter files.

While this is technically the right thing to do, I pity the system administrator that
is looking at a system with more than 2147483647 corrected or uncorrected errors!

So:

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

but maybe this is just churn and not really useful in practice?

-Tony