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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable exporting of nmi_callback functions
	for x86_64 privilege domains
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:07:33 +0100
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On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:41, Jan Beulich wrote:
> I disagree to that. Instead (even in the main kernel, and also on i386)
> nmi_callback should completely go away, and the supposedly one user
> should instead use the DIE_NMI and/or DIE_NMI_IPI notifiers.

I agree with Jan on that.

Haven't see the original patch, but normally it's Linux policy
to not merge EXPORT_SYMBOLs if there are no modular
users of the symbol in tree.

-Andi