On 01/16/2017 04:56 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 04:49:41PM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote: >> When booting kernel with mce=off a loud warning from the mce code >> is displayed. This causes confusion for end users. > > Is this what you call a loud warning? > > [ 1.885648] mce: Unable to init device /dev/mcelog (rc: -5)
Yes, it was loud enough to generate a bug report from a user. FWIW, I just found this from last year calling the same message "scary". It doesn't look like there was a follow up though. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/9/354 P. >
