From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface"
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:27:11 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030715022711.A5608@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030714212222.GA21569@xanadu.az.mvista.com>; from dsaxena@mvista.com on Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 02:22:22PM -0700
Deepak Saxena wrote:
> My question back is how do you evaluate a high-end SCSI RAID controller
> to make sure that there is no bug in the firmware that causes you to loose
> all your data?
This may be a great moment for relaxing with a good book, e.g. Bruce
Schneier's "Secrets & Lies", chapter 22, where he describes why
functional testing and discovering security bugs are so different.
> Finally, I would like to point out that just b/c something is considered
> bad does not preclude it from being in the kernel.
Well, in the case of TOE, we should at least be able to politely ask
all the useless silicon to step aside :-)
- Werner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-15 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-14 18:46 Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface" David griego
2003-07-14 19:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-14 21:22 ` Deepak Saxena
2003-07-14 21:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-15 5:27 ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-07-14 19:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-14 19:14 David griego
2003-07-14 19:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-15 12:42 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-14 19:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-14 19:43 David griego
2003-07-14 20:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-14 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-14 20:05 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-14 20:30 ` Shawn
2003-07-15 5:58 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-07-14 20:19 David griego
2003-07-14 20:31 ` Alan Shih
2003-07-14 20:34 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-14 21:53 ` Deepak Saxena
2003-07-17 22:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-07-14 20:23 David griego
2003-07-14 20:29 David griego
2003-07-14 21:51 David griego
[not found] <Sea2-F66GGORm1u51rM00012573@hotmail.com>
2003-07-15 11:18 ` Alan Cox
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