Re: [RFC -tip] x86: nmi - add sensible names to nmi_watchdog bootparam

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Thu Oct 30 2008 - 13:43:36 EST


[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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