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SubjectRE: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Skip creating kobjects with NULL names
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 8:16 AM
> To: Ghannam, Yazen <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
> Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> tony.luck@intel.com; x86@kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE/AMD: Skip creating kobjects with NULL
> names
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 06:46:33PM +0000, Ghannam, Yazen wrote:
> > Future SMCA systems may have banks whose MCA_IPID is not known so we
>
> You lost me here. How would the IPID not be known? Are you talking about
> an old kernel running on new HW and thus the HardwareID in its MCA_IPID
> to be unknown to the old kernel?
>

Yes, that's right: old kernel on new HW.

> > In the past, the sysfs entries were named something like "th_bank#" before
> > each bank was given a more descriptive name. We can go back to this format
> > as a fallback for unrecognized bank types. This will fix the issue with sysfs
> > failing and also the interface will still work on new hardware.
>
> You could do: th_bank#<HardwareID> so that we can find what it is by
> grepping the PPR.
>

Good idea. Will do.

Thanks,
Yazen
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