Re: [PATCH] x86, mce: Print warning if MCE handler fails to register/dev/mcelog
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Apr 09 2013 - 14:54:30 EST
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 06:30:58PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> - misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device);
> + if (misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device) != 0)
> + pr_warn("Failed to register mcelog device\n");
>
> Did this actually happen to you? Or is this just "good practice" to check the
> return value from misc_register?
I'm very sceptical this actually happens - we would've otherwise seen
reports about mcelog not starting correctly.
Hmm.
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Boris.
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