linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] x86: Remove old nmi

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Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:03:55 -0500
From:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, fweisbec@...il.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, yinghai@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] x86: Remove old nmi_watchdog

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:49:57AM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:32:02PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> > Ingo asked me to remove the old nmi_watchdog to minimize the amount of
> > code duplication we have to do for recent fixes.  All the functionality
> > needed by the old nmi watchdog should be available in perf now.
> > 
> 
>  Hi Don, if I understand correctly not many things are changed from previous
> time, some tune ups here and there, right?

Right.  Just the addition of the first patch to preserve
unknown_nmi_panic, some compiler breakage fix, and documentation stuff.

Cheers,
Don
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