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From:   "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <kernel@gpiccoli.net>
Date:   Thu, 7 May 2020 23:17:19 -0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog.c: convert {soft/hard}lockup boot
 parameters to sysctl aliases
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On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 8:06 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> We have a lot of sysctls.  What is the motivation for converting these
> particular ones?

No stronger motivation than a regular clean-up - I just liked the
infrastructure provided by Vlastmil and thought in using it. I know we
have plenty of sysctls, but not all of them have identical/duplicate
boot params, so I went with the obvious ones, that I use more.
Cheers,

Guilherme