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Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:05:22 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>, patches@...-64.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH x86 for review II] [18/39] x86_64: Allow to run a program when a machine check event is detected

On Mon 2007-02-12 09:04:43, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 08:54, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Montag, 12. Februar 2007 08:38 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> > > When a machine check event is detected (including a AMD RevF threshold 
> > > overflow event) allow to run a "trigger" program. This allows user space
> > > to react to such events sooner.
> > 
> > Could this not be merged with other reporting mechanisms? This looks like
> > a new incarnation of the /etc/hotplug code.
> 
> I refuse to make mcelog depend on dbus. Just because some desktops want bloat
> doesn't mean that everybody else wants too.

Hmm... fix the userspace, no? /etc/hotplug code in kernel should work
with other stuff than dbus...
									Pavel
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