Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:52:55 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC -tip] x86: nmi - add sensible names to nmi_watchdog boot
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* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Add sensible names as "lapic" and "ioapic" to
> nmi_watchdog boot parameter. Sometimes it is not
> that easy to recall what exactly nmi_watchdog=1
> does mean so we allow the using of symbolic names here.
> 
> Old numeric values remain valid.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c |   15 ++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

ok, that makes quite a bit of sense. Peter, any objections?

	Ingo
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