linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/MCE: Remove MCP

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Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:24:39 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        linux-edac <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/MCE: Remove MCP_TIMESTAMP

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:14:04PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> And yes, you should spend the extra cycles. Adding a flags argument to
> mce_setup() and propagate it through the various callsites shouldn't be
> that hard and would make the stuff obvious instead of obfuscated.

Sure, that's already on my TODO. I want to take a look at it when I have
a quiet moment.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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