Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

From: George Anzinger
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 19:02:17 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
George Anzinger <george@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that
the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog. If the
notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is
given a new lease on life.


It looks sensible, but as there aren't actually any in-kernel uses for this
I'd have thought it would be better for it to live out-of-tree?

I should just bundle it with the kgdb patch then?
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George Anzinger george@xxxxxxxxxx
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