Bug#599368: [PATCH v2] watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation

2011-01-03 Thread Don Zickus
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 11:02:42PM +, 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 w

Bug#599368: [PATCH v2] watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation

2011-01-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
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 'nowatc