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SubjectRe: [patch 4/4] ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling
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 ;)

As it stands, this change is pretty gruesome...
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