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

[Andi Kleen]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> 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?"

The kernel doesn't know what number of banks are expected, just humans do.

-Andi


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