On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:04:27 +0530 "Naveen N. Rao" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/[email protected]/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. That to me seems a ridiculous proposal. What are you going to do if in future they ceased to be system wide ? Move them back ? The threshold for playing musical chairs with sysfs nodes is a lot higher than "I think it's much cleaner" The current approach is a lot more futureproof even if a spot more ugly. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
