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Message-ID: <20081030174307.GE19888@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:43:07 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Aristeu Rozanski <aris@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC -tip] x86: nmi - add sensible names to nmi_watchdog boot
	param

[Cyrill Gorcunov - Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:14:26PM +0300]
| [Aristeu Rozanski - Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:10:53PM -0400]
| | > 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.
| | looks good to me, but you need to update the documentation as well.
| | 
| | -- 
| | Aristeu
| | 
| 
| Aristeu, maybe you could do it for me -- English is quite weak
| side of me :)
| 
| 		- Cyrill -

I think I'd better wait 'till your patch (for nmi_watchdog.txt)
applied. It allows me to just write a few words so it would be pushed
on top of _all_ nmi related changes these days (without interdiff).

		- Cyrill -
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