Re: [PATCH -v2 3/6] x86, RAS: Convert mce-inject module to debugfs

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Oct 17 2012 - 15:06:26 EST


Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
>
> This is a module which is used for debugging MCE decoding paths so its
> userspace interface should go to debugfs, where it belongs conceptually.
>
> While at it, add a warning to the Kconfig text that this interface is
> unstable and no userspace scripts should rely all too much on it.

Nack. You broke mce-test/mce-inject, aka existing userland which is not
allowed in Linux.

-Andi

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