lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1998]   [Sep]   [9]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: warning patch for 2.1.120 dcache.c
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:

> I have hardware that is already blacklisted for Linux. ...This
> blacklisted hardware works fine with my current configuration, so I
> turn on the feature that was disabled AFTER the boot. No harm done.
>
> Consider these two senerios:
>
> 1. Device gets blacklisted while not deserving it.
>
> Consequence: Hardware doesn't perform to its maximum.

Hopefully there would be a boot message alerting the user of this.

> Fix: Test the blacklisted feature, if it works turn the feature on
> after the boot, if not leave feature turned off.
>
> 2. Device is not blacklisted when it should be.
>
> Consequence: a. Hardware fails during boot, can't continue
> b. Hardware fails silently, corruption occurs.
> Fix: a. throw out bad hardware, replace.
> b. after months of wondering what's wrong, throw out bad
> hardware, replace.
c. throw out Linux, reinstall windows 95.
>
> Which senerio seems to be easier to live with. In my opinion 1 seems
> easier to cope with on the downside. Of course the natural argument
> is to blacklist all possible problems then whitelist known good
> combinations... This smells like kernel bloat to me.
>
> -- Jeffrey Hundstad


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/faq.html

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:44    [W:0.087 / U:0.164 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site