linux-kernel - Re: [v3 PATCH 1/3] panic: Change nmi

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Date:	Mon, 7 Mar 2016 12:13:01 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	河合英宏 / KAWAI，HIDEHIRO 
	<hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@....com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
	Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	"linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org" <linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>,
	Gobinda Charan Maji <gobinda.cemk07@...il.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>,
	"openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 1/3] panic: Change nmi_panic from macro to function

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:53:51AM +0000, 河合英宏 / KAWAI，HIDEHIRO wrote:
> > From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@...en8.de]
> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 07:57:44PM +0900, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> > > Change nmi_panic() macro to a normal function for the portability.
> > 
> > portability?
> 
> I wanted to say encapsulating things into a function makes modules
> only have to know about the function. Modules don't need to know
> all things in the macro.  But I thought again, and `portability'
> was not appropriate.
> 
> However, this patch set has been queued into -mm now.  So I'll
> leave this if not necessary.

Unless Andrew is willing to do a quick "quilt header -e" on your patch
and paste in a corrected commit message text which you give him...

:-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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