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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:21:50 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [mcelog] Start using the new sysfs tunables location
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> Even if we decide not to remove these tunables from under their current 
> per-cpu location, I still think it is much cleaner to have them 
> available under /sys/devices/system/machinecheck.

"much cleaner" is not sufficient justification to break an ABI.

-Andi

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