linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] mce: fix warning messages about static struct mce

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:00:22 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
CC:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"gouders@...bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de" 
	<gouders@...bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>,
	Marcos Souza <marcos.mage@...il.com>,
	"justinmattock@...il.com" <justinmattock@...il.com>,
	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] mce: fix warning messages about static struct mce_device

> This way, the new object is full functional, does not conflict with
> the older one, and also all the users of the old memory are still fine
> and can cleanup a lazy as they need without much synchronization.

Thanks Alan & Kay ... makes sense to me now.

-Tony