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Subject: RE: [PATCH] NMI notifiers for 2.5
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Larry Sendlosky <Larry.Sendlosky@storigen.com>
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On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 11:20, Larry Sendlosky wrote:
> Why not just use the panic notifier callback? After all, isn't
> an "NMI timeout" just another type of panic? Is there code
> that needs to take different action on an NMI timeout than a panic?
> 
> larry

That is a possibility but the arguments available are different.
panic has the string and NMI has the registers available.

Could also include oops handler as well.

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