Re: [PATCH] x86, mce: disable MCE if cpu has no MCE banks

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Wed Oct 28 2009 - 08:04:05 EST


On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:24:45 BST, Andi Kleen said:

> >>> mce: CPU supports 0 MCE banks
>
> That message can be just removed I think. I don't see much value in it
> because the value is in sysfs and when you see the CPU type you can easily
> determine it anyways.

Maybe it should only print a message if it finds an unexpected number of banks?
"Hey dood - we're on a Core3.5 and there should be 6 banks here, but the
hardware says there's only 4. What's up with that?"

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