From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: minyard@acm.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:16:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070214201632.a7f18794.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17875.56356.396676.239952@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:05:56 +1100 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> Andrew Morton writes:
>
> > This is all fairly unpleasant.
> >
> > What architecture is preventing us from using DIE_NMI_POST on all
> > architectures which support ipmi? ia64?
> >
> > It would be better to simply require that all ipmi-using architectures
> > implement notify_die(DIE_NMI_POST, ...).
>
> We're starting to see IPMI creeping on powerpc as well, and we don't
> have an NMI.
>
Sure, but you could implement the registration function. I mean, you
_would_ call the NMI callback if you could, right ;)
As it stands, this change is pretty gruesome...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-15 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 20:12 [patch 4/4] ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling Corey Minyard
2007-02-15 3:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 4:05 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-15 4:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-02-15 15:49 ` Corey Minyard
2007-02-15 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-16 0:26 ` Corey Minyard
2007-02-19 20:14 ` Corey Minyard
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