linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [mcelog] Start using the new sysfs tunables location

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Message-ID: <20120906122850.GI17289@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:28:50 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, bp@...64.org,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, ananth@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [mcelog] Start using the new sysfs tunables location

> The change is still under discussion. Stage one is to add the new global
> pathnames in addition to keeping the old per-cpu ones. Also fix all utilities
> (just mcelog(8) as far as we know) to prefer the new paths.

But why do you even want to change it?  Does it fix anything?
AFAIK the old setup -- while not being pretty -- works just fine.

-Andi
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