RE: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] [hpwdt] Set the mapped BIOS address space asexecutable

[Mingarelli, Thomas]

I tested changing the return value to NOTIFY_OK always.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wim Van Sebroeck [mailto:wim@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:11 PM
To: Bernhard Walle; Mingarelli, Thomas
Cc: Andrew Morton; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] [hpwdt] Set the mapped BIOS address space as executable

Hi Bernhard,

> Wasn't the conclusion that NOTIFY_OK always works and we should not
> rely on that 'allow_kdump' option?

Wasn't completely clear to me, but it would indeed be much cleaner.

Hi Tom,

What did you test exactly?

Thanks in advance,
Wim.

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