linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/3] x86/MCE, EDAC/mce_amd: Add support for new MCA

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:32:39 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:     Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....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>,
        "Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com" 
        <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/3] x86/MCE, EDAC/mce_amd: Add support for new
 MCA_SYND{1,2} registers

> That's why I'm proposing this prepended length in front of the
> vendor_info field so that it can be extended properly in the future
> and new shared members can also be added and this whole scheme can be
> forward-compatible, so to speak, without having to cast anything in
> stone.

I missed the pre-pended length bit ... with that it all makes sense.

-Tony