From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 06:16:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080526101646.GD24507@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080526093913.GG13529@elte.hu>
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:39:13AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Exactly why is pulling an USB stick considered "stupid"? Last i checked
> there was no physical lock preventing users from doing that.
>
> Sure, pulling a mounted USB stick is inconvenient ... for _us_ kernel
> developers. But the user really doesnt care and shouldnt care.
Because they could lose data? Because if the kernel wakes up and
tries writing to the USB stick right as they pull it out, it could
physically damage the flash format? I know, stupid reason... :-)
I know, I know, it's an issue. If someone wants to look at it, great.
It is on my todo list, but I've been doing a lot of travelling, and
when you have only one laptop, and pulling USB sticks isn't the sort
of thing you can do using UML or KVM, it tends to fall to the bottom
of your list.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-26 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-23 16:19 Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008 Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-23 16:23 ` Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of May " Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-23 16:42 ` Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March " Linus Torvalds
2008-05-23 17:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-23 19:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-24 0:15 ` Chris Wright
2008-05-24 5:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-26 9:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-24 5:32 ` Greg KH
2008-05-24 22:23 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-24 22:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-24 22:45 ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-25 11:58 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-26 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-26 10:16 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-05-26 10:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-26 16:20 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-26 16:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-26 17:01 ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-26 17:09 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-05-26 17:28 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-05-26 17:38 ` Jan Kara
2008-05-26 17:50 ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-26 18:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-27 6:12 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-05-27 11:41 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-27 3:49 ` Greg KH
2008-05-27 11:40 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-26 14:52 ` Stefan Richter
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