From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756353Ab2DXI1k (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:27:40 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:56666 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756069Ab2DXI1g (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:27:36 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="145181392" From: Andi Kleen To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "Liu\, Jinsong" , tony.luck@intel.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, "xen-devel\@lists.xensource.com" , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add mcelog support for xen platform References: <20120421041454.GA29704@phenom.dumpdata.com> <20120421104502.GB17005@aftab.osrc.amd.com> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:27:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20120421104502.GB17005@aftab.osrc.amd.com> (Borislav Petkov's message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:45:02 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Borislav Petkov 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