From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Power cut in management Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:31:23 +0100 Message-ID: <1224336683.6770.1364.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <4917.79.37.233.237.1224328849.squirrel@nausicaa2.coritel.it> <20081018114910.GA29345@shareable.org> <1224331493.6770.1360.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20081018125621.GA30391@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081018125621.GA30391@shareable.org> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="macroman" To: Jamie Lokier Cc: marco.stornelli@coritel.it, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 13:56 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Trouble is, that's not suitable for a dashboard unit where users plug > in their own media card. >=20 > Marco didn't say if the SD card is for users to plug in their own > media, or if it's internal storage for the device. True, but the situation is different for a removable card. Firstly, it'= s unlikely to be mission-critical; the device will still operate without it. Secondly, even the most na=C3=AFve of users knows that these things= are disposable. It's different if you're building a black box around them, with one of these things inside. --=20 David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centr= e David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporatio= n