Re: [PATCH v3] x86/mce: Honour bios-set CMCI threshold

[Naveen N. Rao]

On 10/17/2012 04:29 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > +static struct dev_ext_attribute dev_attr_bios_cmci_threshold = {
> > > +	__ATTR(bios_cmci_threshold, 0444, device_show_int, NULL),
> > > +	&mce_bios_cmci_threshold
>
> Ok, I just noticed this (we must've missed it during review) but why is
> this read-only? If it has to be read-only, why do we have a node for
> this in sysfs instead of simply issuing the printk statements below and
> people who are interested in this, can grep dmesg?

This was added so that user-space tools could find out if we're using 
thresholds for CMCI.

Regards,
Naveen

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