Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday, April 5, 2005 8:32 pm, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > Russ Anderson wrote: > > > Create /proc/sys/kernel/mca_recovery to turn on/off the MCA recovery > > > code. This allows the recovery code to be enabled or disabled without > > > having to reboot. > > > > Is there also a way to disable MCA recovery on the command line > > as a boot option? Using sysctl for it could be too late. > > Yeah, we added the 'nomca' option a while back to disable machine check > recovery altogether, but it prevents it from being enabled later on iirc.
I've been convinced that the better way to turn the MCA recovery code on/off is to build it as a module and insmod/rmmod. That infrastructure already exists so there is no need for this patch. Sorry about the noise... -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
