Re: [PATCH v2] watchdog: Improve initialisation error message anddocumentation

[Don Zickus]

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@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

Cheers,
Don
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