Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:16:32 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/4] ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling |
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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 ;)
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