linux-kernel - Re: x86: mce: Please revert 22223c9b417be5fd0ab2cf9ad17eb7bd1e19f7b9

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Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:34:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...glemail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86: mce: Please revert
 22223c9b417be5fd0ab2cf9ad17eb7bd1e19f7b9

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> Ok, here it is, tested on two Fam10 machines here with injecting MCEs.
> The decoding code is now built-in by default (early_initcall requires
> !MODULE).

I don't think it has to require !MODULE. We could do what we do for the 
other initcalls, ie if MODULE we turn it into just a regular initcall. If 
that allows something like the EDAC MCE to be built as a module, and 
people want to, then just go ahead and add the one-liner to <linux/init.h>

Of course, if it _requires_ being loaded early for some other reason, then 
that's a different issue. But don't do it just because we don't have the

	#define early_initcall(fn)               module_init(fn)

line.

		Linus
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