Re: [PATCH 4/5] watchdog: control hard lockup detection default

[Don Zickus]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:12:39AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > In some cases we don't want hard lockup detection enabled by default.
> > An example is when running as a guest. Introduce
> > 
> >   watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(bool)
> 
> So, the name watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector_enable(false) 
> is both too long and also really confusing (because first it 
> suggests enablement, then disables it), so I renamed it to 
> hardlockup_detector_set(), which allows two natural variants:
> 
> 	hardlockup_detector_set(false);
> 	...
> 	hardlockup_detector_set(true);

Fair enough.  Thanks!

Cheers,
Don
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