linux-kernel - Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

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Date:	10 Feb 2007 14:06:40 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> Please just push the EDAC K8 stuff. Andi will say "no" from now until the
> end of time, but end users want it, distributions want it, and Andi is
> not the EDAC maintainer so should consider himself overruled on what
> isn't a technical issue but a personal political viewpoint.

Well it's a technical issue -- it conflicts with the machine check
code that is already implemented by stealing away its events.
You would first need a CONFIG_MCE=n on x86-64 at least, otherwise
one of them will be unhappy.

The other issue is that the existing code does everything EDAC
K8 does already perfectly fine, just in a small fraction of 
the code.

-Andi
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