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From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] opal: Add message notifier unregister function
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On 02/11/2015 11:57 AM, Neelesh Gupta wrote:
> Provide an unregister interface for the opal message notifiers
> to be called when not needed like during driver unload/remove.

Why only for unload/remove, you can also use it in cases where you need
to abort because of any other error soon after successful registration
for an OPAL message.