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From: "Rhoads, Rob" <rob.rhoads@intel.com>
To: "'Greg KH'" <greg@kroah.com>, "Rhoads, Rob" <rob.rhoads@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Hardened Device Drivers Project
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:29:23 -0700
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> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:46:35PM -0700, Rhoads, Rob wrote:
> > 
> > First throw away any idea of a spec. That was a bad idea. :)
> > 
> > Next, turn the first section, "Stability & Reliability" of our 
> > original doc into a "Driver Hardening HOWTO". It would be a 
> > list of characteristics that all good drivers should have, 
> > packed with examples to back it up. 
> 
> Sounds very good.  I recommend that it be written in DocBook and added
> to the Documentation/DocBook directory of the kernel tree.

Agreed. :-)

> 
> > BTW, by no means did I or anyone involved on this project, ever 
> > mean to imply that the current drivers in the kernel are "bad". 
> > Rather, I'd like to capture a list of the best practices and 
> > document them. In any event our current list needs to be 
> > strengthened with concrete examples. My thinking is that we 
> > should work with the Kernel Janitor project. This is where 
> > Intel can probably really help out.
> 
> Great, the janitor project can really use extra people to help out.  I
> suggest that you read over their TODO list again and pick up 
> the pieces
> from there that are missing from your "Driver Hardening HOWTO".

I will do.

[snip]

> 
> It would be wonderful if there were some good FI tools that were
> available for our use.  It can only help to make better drivers.
> 
> Thank you for your response, and for listening to the community.
> 
> greg k-h
>

-RobR
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