From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
david-b@pacbell.net, mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net,
greg@kroah.com, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:43:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D7E4B7F.5030008@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0209101236270.7106-100000@home.transmeta.com
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>
>>Which still leaves the question, does it really make sense for
>>FATAL/BUG to forcibly kill the machine?
>
>
> No. It should only be "locally fatal", and it should clearly just do what
> BUG() does now - kill the process.
>
> But that implies very much that you really cannot use FATAL() in general
> at all, since it would be illegal to use whenever some caller holds some
> non-local locks (which is almost always the case for most "peripheral
> code").
Well we still have panic()... It might be nice to have a PANIC() macro
with a similar form to that of DEBUG/WARN/FATAL...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-10 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-09 22:17 [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 Greg KH
2002-09-10 0:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 0:19 ` Greg KH
2002-09-10 0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 0:40 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Cox
2002-09-10 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 1:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 10:23 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-10 0:35 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-09-10 1:01 ` [patch] dump_stack(): arch-neutral stack trace Andrew Morton
2002-09-15 4:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-15 4:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 1:27 ` [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 2:07 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-09-10 2:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 16:32 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2002-09-10 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-10 18:16 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-10 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 18:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-10 19:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-10 19:32 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-09-10 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 19:43 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-09-10 21:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-10 22:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-10 18:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-10 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-10 19:27 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-10 20:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-10 22:00 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-10 22:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-10 22:26 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-10 23:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-10 19:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-15 5:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-15 5:33 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-09-15 16:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 0:32 ` Horst von Brand
2002-09-15 6:07 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-09-15 7:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-15 20:05 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-15 14:53 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-15 18:23 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-09-15 18:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-16 0:55 ` Larry McVoy
2002-09-15 21:35 ` Rob Landley
2002-09-16 3:00 ` Larry McVoy
2002-09-16 3:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 11:16 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-09-16 18:35 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-16 18:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 19:36 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-16 19:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 8:50 ` Ian Molton
2002-09-16 9:37 ` Rob Landley
2002-09-15 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-15 18:36 ` Roman Zippel
2002-09-15 19:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-15 19:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-15 19:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-15 23:24 ` Larry McVoy
2002-09-15 23:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-15 23:52 ` Larry McVoy
2002-09-16 0:01 ` Robert Love
2002-09-16 1:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-16 2:13 ` Larry McVoy
2002-09-16 11:05 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-09-16 14:05 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-09-16 16:24 ` Marco Colombo
2002-09-16 0:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 1:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-15 19:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 9:06 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-16 14:14 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-16 14:53 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-16 15:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 15:59 ` kernel debuggers was [Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34] Soewono Effendi
2002-09-15 19:08 ` [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 Linus Torvalds
2002-09-15 19:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-15 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-15 19:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-15 19:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 4:59 ` Jeff Dike
2002-09-16 4:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 4:55 ` Jeff Dike
2002-09-15 19:35 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-16 4:51 ` Jeff Dike
2002-09-16 15:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-09-18 0:33 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-18 0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 0:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-18 1:16 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-15 13:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-09-15 5:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-10 16:46 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-10 16:56 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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