Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 May 2007 12:40:40 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Freezing of kernel threads |
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On Sat, 12 May 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > If you fail to do that, we'll see freezer failure, quickly, and catch > the simple bug.
"It's a feature to add crap to drivers and subsystems that don't care!"
That's a novel thing.
Maybe we could add other features too. Like a "IM_NOT_AN_IDIOT" flag that every driver has to set in it's "struct device", so that the device manager knows that it wasn't written by an idiot.
> I'm afraid that if we default to "do not freeze by default", someone > will just port zfs, will know nothing about suspend, and his > "write management info somewhere periodically" thread will corrupt > people's disks.
Right. That's what the IM_NOT_AN_IDIOT thing will do too - it will guarantee that only smart people do the right thing.
Great idea. We'll get a better kernel in no tim!
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