From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262160AbVG2AAj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:00:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262171AbVG2AAj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:00:39 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:26352 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262160AbVG2AAh (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:00:37 -0400 Message-ID: <42E97133.8060307@mvista.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:58:43 -0700 From: George Anzinger Reply-To: george@mvista.com Organization: MontaVista Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch References: <42E940BE.3020908@mvista.com> <20050728161341.15bf9625.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050728161341.15bf9625.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > George Anzinger wrote: > >> This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that >> the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog. If the >> notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is >> given a new lease on life. > > > It looks sensible, but as there aren't actually any in-kernel uses for this > I'd have thought it would be better for it to live out-of-tree? I should just bundle it with the kgdb patch then? -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com HRT (High-res-timers): http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/