Re: [PATCH 0/9] watchdog: internally split softlockup and hardlockup

[Don Zickus]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:22:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu,  5 Feb 2015 15:40:16 -0500 Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The hardlockup and softockup had always been tied together.  Due to the request
> > of KVM folks, they had a need to have one enabled but not the other.
> > Internally rework the code to split things apart more cleanly.
> > 
> > There is a bunch of churn here, but the end result should be code that should
> > be easier to maintain and fix without knowing the internals of what is going
> > on.
> 
> We're late in -rc7, which is not a good time for "a bunch of churn". 
> So I'll park this series for consideration after 3.19 has been
> released.  I'll let you know if it has seriously bitrotted by then.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Don
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