Re: [PATCH] NMI watchdog config option (was: Re: [PATCH] NMI lockupand AltSysRq-P dumping calltraces on _all_ cpus via NMI IPI)

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> IOW, testing is good, but it's _not_ good if you test your users to 
> destruction.  User testing should be limited (as far as humanly possible) 
> to things that they can sanely report.

 Oh, absolutely.  I do agree -- I've just wanted to point out the 
advantages and drawbacks of the watchdog in case someone (not necessarily 
you) misses them. ;-)

  Maciej
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