Re: [PATCH] x86: Add an option to disable decoding of MCE

[Tony Luck]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Mike Waychison <mikew@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> figured out how to replace them yet).  With almost every single kernel
> version bump we've had, we've found numerous places where strings in
> the logs have subtly changed, breaking our infrastructure :(  Finding
> these is a painful process and often shows up late in the deployment
> process.  This is disastrous to our deployment schedules as rebooting
> our number of machines, well, it takes a while...
>
> I'm sorry if this is tangential to your comment above, but I feel the
> need to have folks recognize that printk() is _not_ a good foundation
> on which to build automation.

Congratulations .... you made the lwn.net "quote of the week"
  http://lwn.net/Articles/421784

 - wider distribution of this wisdom is a very good thing.

-Tony
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