Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86, mce: rename finished to valid in struct mceII

[Andi Kleen]

Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> struct mce is exported to user space. I don't think it's a good idea
>> to rename fields in exported structures like this.  That just causes confusion.
> 
> I don't know any other real user of this struct than the mcelog and the
> mce test suite.  In other words, I expected that you (Huang and Andi) are
> only users who may be confused by this kind of change.

Also I should add there are other consumers of /dev/mcelog, not just
mcelog/mce-inject.

-Andi
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