From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Freezing of kernel threads
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 00:14:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070512221446.GA761@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705121239090.3986@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Hi!
> > If you fail to do that, we'll see freezer failure, quickly, and catch
> > the simple bug.
>
> "It's a feature to add crap to drivers and subsystems that don't care!"
>
> That's a novel thing.
>
> Maybe we could add other features too. Like a "IM_NOT_AN_IDIOT" flag that
> every driver has to set in it's "struct device", so that the device
> manager knows that it wasn't written by an idiot.
Well, it was initially SOMEONE_REVIEWIED_THIS flag (and thus pretty
neccessary for initial merge). Now it still serves as
SOMEONE_REVIEWIED_THIS flag, but I guess you could call it
IM_NOT_AN_IDIOT flag, too.
Well, we can go the other way around, but that means more careful
reviewing of incoming code. Yes, we can do it.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-12 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-12 18:17 [RFD] Freezing of kernel threads Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-12 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-12 21:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-12 19:17 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-12 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-12 22:14 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-05-12 22:08 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-12 19:36 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-05-12 19:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-12 20:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-13 8:33 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-05-13 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-13 20:08 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-13 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-13 21:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-14 6:18 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-05-14 7:26 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-05-14 10:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-14 7:41 ` Dipankar Sarma
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