Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Hardened Device Drivers Project | Date | Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:41:59 +0200 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10209201753310.25090-100000@master.linux-ide.org> you wrote: > Regardless, it takes (fill in the blank) to boldly ask people to add APIs > for an industry who is only interested in using and not contributing.
There is more than one industry interested in it. It simply sucks if your kernel panic only because you remove a SCSI cable. IT also sucks if your kernel panics only vecause you have a bad block on a Disk.
Companies which build carrier grade Linux Systems (like HP, IBM and SGI _do_ contribute on making Linux an Enterprise System).
So personal I find this project good, and adding the Linux Testing community is needed. But I dont think that a lot of new APIs is needed in the first place. (Well, possibly for things like path failover/md somebody needs to define an actual error handling, like it is done currently), but "debugging" all drivers by review is needed. On the other hand, the reason this has not happend just shows us, that it is not trivial to find a second person which understands hardware's error behaviour.
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