Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add mcelog support for xen platform

[Andi Kleen]

Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Because, if you'd hooked into it, just imagine one fine day, when we
> remove mcelog support, what screaming the xen people will be doing when
> mcelog doesn't work anymore.

That's simple. /dev/mcelog is a widely used user space ABI and Linux
does never remove widely used user space ABIs, so this can never happen.

-Andi

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