Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jeff Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [VM/MEMORY-SICKNESS] 2.4.15-pre7 kmem_cache_create invalid opcode | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:14:07 -0700 |
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> > Why does this seem illogical to you?
Philisophical. Kind of like Linus hating kernel debuggers or something. If someone is building applcations or modules, etc. in a "commerical" software world (I just opened the door to get my head bitten off) where I came from, doing stuff like this was totally forbidden. There's a sort of "shell shocked" conditioning folks get into who have been in software companies like where I came from where anything that makes it difficult for a vendor, partner, developer, etc. to build and maintain code is considered a serious defect.
This type of a problem could cause a partner or vendor to spend a lot of time trying to figure out what was wrong. Even more so since the way I stumbled across the problem was building a driver on one system with modversions turned off, then loading the module on a target system and watching it crash -- very annoying and wasteful of time. It's just a philisophical kind of thing. i.e. the tools and code shoudl not have "easter eggs" hidden in it that make it harder to maintain code.
:-)
Jeff
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