linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation

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Message-ID: <20110103135602.GO3743@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:56:02 -0500
From:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 599368@...s.debian.org,
	608138@...s.debian.org, Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and
 documentation

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 11:02:42PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...'  does
> not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the watchdog.  It
> also currently prints the error value as a pointer, rather than
> extracting the error code with PTR_ERR().  Fix that.
> 
> Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel parameter to
> associate it with this message.
> 
> Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Looks good, thanks.  I'll add it to my queue.

Cheers,
Don
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