Re: [tip:x86/mce] x86, mce: Rename cpu_specific_poll to mce_cpu_specific_poll

[Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The i7core_edac driver covers the Nehalem chipsets. It is at:

Erm no, first Nehalem isn't a chipset and then it only covers
parts of the space (some subset of Nehalems with a specific uncore). 

This does not include Xeon 75xx where all this is quite different.

> I agree. The EDAC module handles memory errors for several memory controllers,
> including some on non-x86 architectures. Letting this decode to happen outside
> the kernel, just for a very few set of memory controllers, seems a bad idea.

Again you can't do all the things mcelog does in kernel space only.

-Andi
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