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_thresholdOk, 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.
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