Re: [PATCH] x86, mce: Print warning if MCE handler fails to register/dev/mcelog

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 06:30:58PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> -	misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device);
> +	if (misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device) != 0)
> +		pr_warn("Failed to register mcelog device\n");
> 
> Did this actually happen to you?  Or is this just "good practice" to check the
> return value from misc_register?

I'm very sceptical this actually happens - we would've otherwise seen
reports about mcelog not starting correctly.

Hmm.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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