From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2002-09@lina.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Hardened Device Drivers Project
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:41:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17shi3-00083J-00@sites.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10209201753310.25090-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10209201753310.25090-100000@master.linux-ide.org> you wrote:
> Regardless, it takes (fill in the blank) to boldly ask people to add APIs
> for an industry who is only interested in using and not contributing.
There is more than one industry interested in it. It simply sucks if your
kernel panic only because you remove a SCSI cable. IT also sucks if your
kernel panics only vecause you have a bad block on a Disk.
Companies which build carrier grade Linux Systems (like HP, IBM and SGI _do_
contribute on making Linux an Enterprise System).
So personal I find this project good, and adding the Linux Testing community
is needed. But I dont think that a lot of new APIs is needed in the first
place. (Well, possibly for things like path failover/md somebody needs to
define an actual error handling, like it is done currently), but "debugging"
all drivers by review is needed. On the other hand, the reason this has not
happend just shows us, that it is not trivial to find a second person which
understands hardware's error behaviour.
Greetings
Bernd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-21 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-21 0:26 [ANNOUNCE] Linux Hardened Device Drivers Project Rhoads, Rob
2002-09-21 0:54 ` [ANNOUNCE] Linux [add-more-silly-APIs] " Jeff Garzik
2002-09-21 1:06 ` [ANNOUNCE] Linux Hardened " Andre Hedrick
2002-09-21 10:41 ` Bernd Eckenfels [this message]
2002-09-21 11:20 ` Russell King
2002-09-21 1:40 ` Greg KH
2002-09-21 5:34 ` my review of the Device Driver Hardening Design Spec Greg KH
2002-09-21 15:21 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-23 6:13 ` [ANNOUNCE] Linux Hardened Device Drivers Project Randy.Dunlap
2002-09-23 12:31 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-09-23 22:38 ` Rhoads, Rob
2002-09-24 0:08 ` Greg KH
2002-09-24 17:12 ` Greg KH
[not found] <mailman.1032570840.22498.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-09-21 2:14 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-09-21 3:30 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-21 3:00 Rhoads, Rob
2002-09-21 3:47 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-09-21 4:09 ` Mark Veltzer
2002-09-23 13:23 Manfred Spraul
2002-09-24 19:30 Rhoads, Rob
2002-09-24 19:55 ` Greg KH
2002-09-24 21:46 Rhoads, Rob
2002-09-24 23:07 ` Greg KH
2002-09-24 23:29 Rhoads, Rob
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