Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932212AbVLANFX (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:05:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932213AbVLANFW (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:05:22 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:42967 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932212AbVLANFW (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:05:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:05:18 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Andi Kleen , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Enabling RDPMC in user space by default Message-ID: <20051201130518.GD19515@wotan.suse.de> References: <20051129151515.GG19515@wotan.suse.de> <20051130033808.GJ19515@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 612 Lines: 13 > I agree that the NMI watchdog is very important, but my main objection is > trying to provide a stable interface for this, i would rather see a > seperate tool do it (as cumbersome as it may be) even if it meant that > the external tool simply did what you intend on doing in the kernel. But why an external tool when the nmi watchdog needs this anyways? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/