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Bug#889487: linux-image-4.14.0-2-amd64: please enable CONFIG_X86_MCELOG_LEGACY



Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 14:32 -0500, Jon wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 4.14.7-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Please enable CONFIG_X86_MCELOG_LEGACY so that /dev/mcelog exists again.
> 
> It seems this functionality was seperated from CONFIG_X86_MCE in 4.12
> and is not enabled by default. I don't see it explicitly set one way or
> another in the debian kernel source repo and no mention of it in the
> changelog, so I assume that not enabling it is unintentional

This was unintentional, but I think it's correct.  The Kconfig says to
use rasdaemon which is already packaged and in stable.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
                                                       - Robert Coveyou

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