From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: bug 2400 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:08:01 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040401140801.364bcbb1.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040401131502.41136788.akpm@osdl.org> <1080856352.5300.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:34514 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263204AbUDAWFv (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:05:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1080856352.5300.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: gulickconsulting@direcway.com Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Matt Gulick 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?