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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	suparna@in.ibm.com, fastboot@osdl.org, mbligh@aracnet.com,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:00:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091109602.851.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m14qnr62hd.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Iau, 2004-07-29 at 02:12, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Or those devices that hang the machine when you clear it.

There are none. Its required by the PCI spec and used by BIOS vendors
during the boot sequence. So its a *tested* approach.

> And there is the fact that the pci configuration access methods
> are frequently BIOS calls.

You will be running bios code on some systems every time you read
the cmos clock, every time you touch pci config space, every time
you hit a key, even in your new kernel boot up path - whats your
point

> So I do see just clearing the master bit on each PCI devices to
> as dangerous as calling the shutdown methods.

Then we violently disagree


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-29 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-22 16:19 Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API Keith Owens
2004-07-26  6:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28  1:53   ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 10:54     ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2004-07-28 10:46       ` [Fastboot] " Alan Cox
2004-07-28 14:38         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 14:06           ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 15:21             ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 15:56               ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 17:09               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-28 16:05             ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 15:42         ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 15:12       ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 15:23         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 15:53           ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 16:03     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-28 18:00       ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 18:06         ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-28 19:42           ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 19:56             ` [Fastboot] " Alan Cox
2004-07-28 19:44           ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 23:11             ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 22:53               ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29  1:12                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 14:00                   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-07-29 15:47                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 18:21         ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 19:23       ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 20:28         ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 20:33           ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 19:59             ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 22:42               ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 22:44                 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-28 23:17               ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-28 22:55                 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29  0:22                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-29 13:57                     ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29 18:17                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-29 21:20                         ` Alan Cox
2004-07-29 22:30                           ` Gerrit Huizenga
2004-07-30  0:04                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 23:25                               ` Alan Cox
2004-07-30  4:07                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-30 12:38                               ` Gerrit Huizenga
2004-07-31 13:52                         ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-07-30 15:24                       ` Olivier Galibert
2004-07-29  1:05                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 14:12                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-28 23:44                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-29  0:58                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29  1:09                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-29  1:56                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 14:18                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-29 16:01                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 16:19                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 14:08                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-29 15:52                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29 16:13                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-07-29 17:12                   ` Matthias Urlichs
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-30 15:02 Manfred Spraul
2004-07-30 14:42 ` Alan Cox

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