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    SubjectRe: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]
    On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
    > On Dec 14 2006 14:10, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    > >On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:55 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
    > >> >On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0100
    > >> >Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
    > >> >
    > >> >You think its any easier to debug because the code now runs in ring 3 but
    > >> >accessing I/O space.
    > >>
    > >> A NULL fault won't oops the system,
    > >
    > >.. except when the userspace driver crashes as a result and then the hw
    > >still crashes the hw (for example via an irq storm or by tying the PCI
    > >bus or .. )
    >
    > hw crashes the hw? Anyway, yes it might happen, the more with non-NULL pointers
    > (dangling references f.ex.)
    > However, if the userspace part is dead, no one acknowledges the irq, hence an
    > irq storm (if not caused by writing bogus stuff into registers) should not
    > happen.

    Shared level IRQ?

    Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

    Geert

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