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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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ 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
2012-04-21  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]
2012-04-25  8:11       ` Ingo Molnar

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