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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:56:12 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Fix initialization error warning
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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)

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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