From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267510AbUHJQKW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:10:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267505AbUHJQKA (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:10:00 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:9677 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267508AbUHJQGl (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:06:41 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1092148392.5818.6.camel@mindpipe> References: <1092082920.5761.266.camel@cube> <1092099669.5759.283.camel@cube> <1092148392.5818.6.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1092150252.16885.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:04:14 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2004-08-10 at 15:33, Lee Revell wrote: > I hate to derail a good flame-fest, but this would be extremely useful, > for more than burning CDs. Anytime you are dealing with a SCHED_FIFO > process a bug can lock the machine, this would be useful for hacking > jackd for example. > > If someone wants to code this up I and the other people on jackit-devel > would gladly test it. How much is this actually needed and how much is it just a user debugging method problem. Having done real time stuff on VMS (save the tears) we always had a policy that one serial console was a shell at highest priority and nobody ever used that one top priority. That gave you an emergency control channel.