Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6 | From | Sau Dan Lee <> | Date | 30 May 2004 14:22:28 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> writes:
>> Where it is now possible to move it out of kernel space WITHOUT >> performance problems, why not move it out?
Oliver> Two reasons: security and robustness.
Oliver> 1. sysreq must work, always work. Ideally you even do the Oliver> dump in hard irq. USB has been modified to support this.
It doesn't always work. Try to compile 'i8042' and 'atkbd' as modules. rmmod one of them, and voila: SysRq doesn't work anymore.
-- Sau Dan LEE 李守敦(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
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