Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:18:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: warning patch for 2.1.120 dcache.c |
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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
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