"warning: 8 bytes ignored in each record" should be a critical error

[fuchsi-fuchs]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but it seems this "warning" actually prevents mcelog from producing any output. This is not a "warning" but rather a critical error and should be marked as such.

[andikleen]

It should only prevent it from producing output for further records in the same read(). That would mainly happen in a flood. If you don't have a flood then very likely there is only a single record for each wakeup/read cycle, so it should be ok.
Not sure if people care about every record in a flood. Usually they are fairly similar. Eventually it will recover.