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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:13:41 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch
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George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
>
> 	This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that
>  	the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog.  If the
>  	notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is
>  	given a new lease on life.

It looks sensible, but as there aren't actually any in-kernel uses for this
I'd have thought it would be better for it to live out-of-tree?