From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: Power cut in management Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:38:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20081018133801.GA30897@shareable.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> <1224336683.6770.1364.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1224336683.6770.1364.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: David Woodhouse Cc: marco.stornelli@coritel.it, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 13:56 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Trouble is, that's not suitable for a dashboard unit where users pl= ug > > 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. >=20 > True, but the situation is different for a removable card. Firstly, i= t's > unlikely to be mission-critical; the device will still operate withou= t > it. Secondly, even the most na=EFve of users knows that these things = are > disposable. >=20 > It's different if you're building a black box around them, with one o= f > these things inside. I agree, this is very good advice. -- Jamie