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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: gulickconsulting@direcway.com
Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug 2400
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:08:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040401140801.364bcbb1.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1080856352.5300.43.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Matt Gulick <gulickconsulting@direcway.com> wrote:
>
> Remember, SCSI is not hot plugable.

oopsing the kernel is not a particularly friendly way of telling this to
our users.

If we have to bandaid over this, say, by leaking some memory and emitting
some rude printk's then OK.  Allowing the machine to kill itself,
potentially losing all the user's unsaved work is distinctly windows 95ish,
and is not OK, agree?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-01 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 21:15 bug 2400 Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 21:52 ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-01 22:08   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-04-01 22:48     ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-01 22:40   ` James Bottomley
2004-04-01 22:53     ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-01 23:07 ` Matthew Dharm
2004-04-01 23:32 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02  0:29   ` Steven Dake
2004-04-02  8:43   ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-02 15:57     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02 16:45       ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-02 17:05         ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02 17:44           ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-02 18:13             ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02 23:40               ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-03  0:25                 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-04  1:40                   ` Alan Stern
2004-04-04 15:23                     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-04 16:46                       ` Alan Stern
2004-04-04 17:04                         ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05  3:17                           ` Alan Stern
2004-04-05 14:59                             ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-05 21:27                             ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06 14:00                               ` Alan Stern
2004-04-05 22:10                             ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-06 14:10                               ` Alan Stern
2004-04-08 14:09                               ` Alan Stern
2004-04-08 16:24                                 ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-08 18:33                                   ` Alan Stern
2004-04-08 19:44                                     ` Matt Gulick
2004-04-05 13:30                           ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2004-04-04 18:16                       ` David Brownell
2004-04-04 18:42                         ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05  3:54                           ` David Brownell
2004-04-05 21:44                             ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05 23:23                               ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2004-04-06  1:19                                 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06  6:52                                   ` Oliver Neukum
2004-04-06 14:03                                     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-07  9:19                                       ` Oliver.Neukum
2004-04-06 15:10                                   ` David Brownell
2004-04-06 15:47                                     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06 16:16                                       ` David Brownell
2004-04-06 16:55                                       ` Alan Stern
2004-04-06 17:13                                         ` James Bottomley
2004-04-02 23:36   ` James Bottomley
2004-04-03  0:11     ` Mike Anderson
2004-04-03  0:16       ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05  4:33     ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-04-05 14:09       ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05 21:07       ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06  9:22         ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-06 13:56           ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06 14:04             ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-06 14:09               ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 23:06         ` Greg KH
2004-04-09 11:28           ` James Bottomley
2004-04-05 14:03     ` Jens Axboe
2004-04-05 21:08       ` James Bottomley
2004-04-06  9:22         ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-06 15:09 Heiko Carstens

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