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Documentation/Changes: clean up mcelog paragraph

The paragraph on mcelog currently describes kernel v2.6.31. In that
kernel the mce code (for i386, that is) was in transition. Ever since
v2.6.32 the situation is much simpler (eg, mcelog is now needed to
process events on almost all x86 machines, i386 and x86-64). Since this
"document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels" let's just describe that
situation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Paul Bolle and committed by
Linus Torvalds c8c3f7d6 47ea8dd8

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Documentation/Changes
··· 280 280 mcelog 281 281 ------ 282 282 283 - In Linux 2.6.31+ the i386 kernel needs to run the mcelog utility 284 - as a regular cronjob similar to the x86-64 kernel to process and log 285 - machine check events when CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE is enabled. Machine check 286 - events are errors reported by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged. 287 - All x86-64 kernels since 2.6.4 require the mcelog utility to 288 - process machine checks. 283 + On x86 kernels the mcelog utility is needed to process and log machine check 284 + events when CONFIG_X86_MCE is enabled. Machine check events are errors reported 285 + by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged. 289 286 290 287 Getting updated software 291 288 ========================