From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>,
Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
michael@free-electrons.com, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
matthew@wil.cx, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:28:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080801072813.GK8254@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731193126.GB23516@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi>
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:31:26PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > In the OSADL safety working group, people are discussing about Linux
> > for safety critical applications. If we want to achieve such
> > scenarios, stripped-down systems are an absolute must.
> >...
>
> My first reaction is that as soon as you enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED you
> can easily enter codepaths noone else has used for a while and that
> got unnoticed broken.
That may be no problem; if we ever come to a safety kernel, it will have
to be audited and carefully tested anyway.
rsc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-01 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 9:27 [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 1/4] Configure out AIO support Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 10:09 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-07-31 10:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 22:42 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-08-05 18:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-05 18:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-05 18:36 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 13:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 14:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 15:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 16:26 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 16:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 16:57 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 17:32 ` Tim Bird
2008-07-31 18:12 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-31 19:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-01 7:28 ` Robert Schwebel [this message]
2008-07-31 19:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 20:37 ` Tim Bird
2008-08-02 16:38 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 13:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-04 18:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 18:24 ` Tim Bird
2008-08-04 18:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 18:54 ` Matt Mackall
2008-08-04 19:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 22:32 ` Tim Bird
2008-08-06 13:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-07 22:55 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 3/4] Configure out ethtool support Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 10:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-07-31 10:49 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:54 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:57 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:42 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:51 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 11:29 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 11:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 11:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 11:50 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 15:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 16:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 4/4] Configure out IGMP support Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-01 19:41 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-04 12:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-04 12:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-04 13:53 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 9:40 ` [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices David Miller
2008-07-31 9:51 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 9:55 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 9:59 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:02 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:15 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:25 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 17:59 ` Tim Bird
2008-07-31 18:50 ` [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features Ulrich Teichert
2008-07-31 19:46 ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-31 19:55 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01 7:17 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-08-01 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 19:47 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 16:42 ` [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices Tim Bird
2008-07-31 17:20 ` Tim Bird
[not found] <20080729154520.728594017@free-electrons.com>
[not found] ` <20080729154747.872888047@free-electrons.com>
2008-07-29 18:17 ` [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-29 18:57 ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-29 20:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-30 14:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-30 15:40 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 6:27 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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