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Message-ID: <20190409113849.GB6150@zn.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:38:49 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Ghannam, Yazen" <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
Cc:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 4/5] x86/MCE: Make number of MCA banks per_cpu

On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:48:34PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> Okay, so drop the export and leave the injector code as-is (it's
> already doing a rdmsrl_on_cpu()).

Yes of course. The number of MCA banks is none of modules' business and
should not be exported at all.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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