RE: [PATCH 1/3] x86/MCE, EDAC/mce_amd: Add support for new MCA_SYND{1,2} registers

[Luck, Tony]

> That's why I'm proposing this prepended length in front of the
> vendor_info field so that it can be extended properly in the future
> and new shared members can also be added and this whole scheme can be
> forward-compatible, so to speak, without having to cast anything in
> stone.

I missed the pre-pended length bit ... with that it all makes sense.

-Tony