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Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:17:04 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To:     Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: hpwdt: Remove spinlock acquire and BIOS calls
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* Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> wrote:

> 
> Ingo,
> 
> I have a patch set under review that brings hpwdt into compliance
> with the watchdog core.
> 
> One of the changes removes the callback into firmware in hpwdt_pretimeout
> and its associated spinlock.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/12/30

 drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 490 +----------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 482 deletions(-)

Very nice, and this should solve all the NMI handling complications!

> I will add you to the CC list of the next version of the set.

Thanks!

	Ingo