Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:52:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:52:51 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:457 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:52:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:56:43 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Thunder from the hill Cc: Linus Torvalds , Matthew Dharm , Greg KH , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 Message-ID: <20020910185643.A9912@ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from thunder@lightweight.ods.org on Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:46:27AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1245 Lines: 29 On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:46:27AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'm personally in X 99% of the time except for the reasonably rare case > > when I'm chasing down some bug I know I can reproduce and I want the > > kernel to have access to the console. > > > > And I doubt I'm alone in that. I suspect most people who use Linux in any > > interesting situation (and no, I don't think servers are very interesting > > from most standpoints) tend to do this. Agreed? > > Our gatekeeper has never even heard of X. And no, I wouldn't call it a > server. The only thing it does is to control which doors and gates are > open and which are closed, and whether or not the runaway is free... So you wanted to say that you'd prefer the machine to crash on a BUG() than try to keep going in case of a recoverable error? I don't think you'd like to stay locked in. At least that was what this discussion was about. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/