linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] EDAC/mc_sysfs: Print MC-scope sysfs counters unsigned

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Date:   Mon, 4 Oct 2021 15:21:13 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Eric Badger <ebadger@...estorage.com>
CC:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
        "open list:EDAC-CORE" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] EDAC/mc_sysfs: Print MC-scope sysfs counters unsigned

> This is cosmetically nicer for counts > INT32_MAX, and aligns the
> MC-scope format with that of the lower layer sysfs counter files.

While this is technically the right thing to do, I pity the system administrator that
is looking at a system with more than 2147483647 corrected or uncorrected errors!

So:

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

but maybe this is just churn and not really useful in practice?

-Tony