Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:47:06 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] NMI watchdog: add support to enable and disable
 IOAPIC NMI
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> > This patch adds support to enable/disable IOAPIC NMI watchdog in runtime via
> > procfs.
> 
> Some info on how to use this, what to write(?) to what file(?) in procfs
> would be Very Good to have.

 I gather this is an extension to the existing interface already covering 
the local APIC NMI watchdog, which surely ;) must have been documented at 
the time it was added.  If it wasn't, then we cannot require it now as a 
prerequisite to accept this patch, although such documentation would be 
desirable as a separate submission.

  Maciej
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