Re: [RFC -tip] x86: nmi - add sensible names to nmi_watchdog bootparam

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Oct 30 2008 - 13:53:21 EST



* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add sensible names as "lapic" and "ioapic" to
> nmi_watchdog boot parameter. Sometimes it is not
> that easy to recall what exactly nmi_watchdog=1
> does mean so we allow the using of symbolic names here.
>
> Old numeric values remain valid.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

ok, that makes quite a bit of sense. Peter, any objections?

Ingo
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