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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:20:37 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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       Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86, mce: rename finished to valid in struct mce
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On 09/29/2009 04:04 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> struct mce is exported to user space. I don't think it's a good idea
>>> to rename fields in exported structures like this.  That just causes confusion.
>>
>> I don't know any other real user of this struct than the mcelog and the
>> mce test suite.  In other words, I expected that you (Huang and Andi) are
>> only users who may be confused by this kind of change.
> 
> Also I should add there are other consumers of /dev/mcelog, not just
> mcelog/mce-inject.
> 

Details?

	-hpa

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