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Subject: Re: Handling NMI in a kernel module
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Isabelle, Francois" <Francois.Isabelle@ca.kontron.com>
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On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 18:37, Isabelle, Francois wrote:
> I'ld like my driver to register a callback there, what about maintaining a
> list of user callback functions which could be registered via:
>  
> request_nmi(int option, void (*hander)(void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs),
> unsigned long flags, const char *dev_name, void *dev_id)

Doesnt seen unreasonable
;
> Is there any standard mecanism to implement such features( dual stage
> watchdog ) ?

We have a watchdog API but not yet dual stage stuff. Its becoming a must
have for HA stuff so the API needs extending

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