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On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 22:18 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> 
> Why not just have one level, NMI, and use the priority field to position
> handlers correctly? 

My point exactly.. I just don't know the history of this code, I had a
quick peek at git but it seems to predate .12, I'll try and dig through
the hysterical tree later today.