Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 18:16:29 EST


George Anzinger <george@xxxxxxxxxx> 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?
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