Re: [patch 4/4] ipmi: add new IPMI nmi watchdog handling

Andrew Morton writes:

> This is all fairly unpleasant.
> 
> What architecture is preventing us from using DIE_NMI_POST on all
> architectures which support ipmi?  ia64?
> 
> It would be better to simply require that all ipmi-using architectures
> implement notify_die(DIE_NMI_POST, ...).

We're starting to see IPMI creeping on powerpc as well, and we don't
have an NMI.

Paul.
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