Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:40:18 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/mce: Move MCE sysfs attributes out of the
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:56:04PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Hmmm.. Can't we just deprecate these? ;) Perhaps we can consider
> adding newer tunables in the right place.

In case you haven't noticed yet: I'm all on your side.

But let me ask you this: these attributes grow to a large number with
a large number of cores but why is this a problem? We have a bunch of
redundant attributes in sysfs, so what?

See what I mean?

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