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Message-ID: <AANLkTikyMswC7eNaambOAmCVQ3uxcZSiikigkTOxYciE@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:50:06 -0800
From:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...gle.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, San Mehat <san@...gle.com>,
	Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tim Hockin <thockin@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] Add oops notification chain.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 02:21:03PM -0800, Aaron Durbin wrote:
>> As Mike talked about it might be more desirable to actually pass a
>> reason field that indicates the appropriate kernel event. However, the
>> naming of some of the variables becomes less clear. Maybe name it
>> panic_oops_notifier_list? That way there would only be a single
>> notifier chain.
>
> Yes, I think that's the better thing to do here instead of adding more
> notifier chains.  It would just start to get even messier than it
> currently is :)

Hmm.  I'm going to try and just re-use the notify_die() bits here
instead which seems to do what I want.  The overloading of "die" is a
bit of a mess, which is probably why I missed it the first time
around.
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