Re: [PATCH] [mcelog] Start using the new sysfs tunables location

[Naveen N. Rao]

On 09/06/2012 05:58 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The change is still under discussion. Stage one is to add the new global
> > pathnames in addition to keeping the old per-cpu ones. Also fix all utilities
> > (just mcelog(8) as far as we know) to prefer the new paths.
>
> But why do you even want to change it?  Does it fix anything?
> AFAIK the old setup -- while not being pretty -- works just fine.

The reason for this was explained in this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg298302.html

Even if we decide not to remove these tunables from under their current 
per-cpu location, I still think it is much cleaner to have them 
available under /sys/devices/system/machinecheck.


- Naveen

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