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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Notify user of MCE events (updated)
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:30:56PM +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> Just asking:
> How about KERN_NOTICE? KERN_INFO is in my opinion too easily lost in the 

It's still in the mcelog if you want it.

The main idea behind the separate mcelog was to make it unobstrusive to 
reduce MCE related support load. (about 20% of all users who get such a 
message seem to think it's a kernel bug and ask kernel developers) 
KERN_INFO is at the right level of unintrusiveness.

-Andi