Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:22:05 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suspend 2 merge: 35/51: Code always built in to the kernel.
Message-ID: <20041127172205.GB1330@elf.ucw.cz>
References: <1101292194.5805.180.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <1101298112.5805.330.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <20041125233243.GB2909@elf.ucw.cz> <1101427035.27250.161.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <m2fz2vfyyc.fsf@tnuctip.rychter.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <m2fz2vfyyc.fsf@tnuctip.rychter.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1460
Lines: 33

On So 27-11-04 01:00:59, Jan Rychter wrote:
> >>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>:
>  Nigel> Hi.
>  Nigel> On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 10:32, Pavel Machek wrote:
> [...]
>  >> Plus kernel now actually expects user interaction to solve problems
>  >> during boot. No, no.
> 
>  Nigel> You want your cake and to eat it too? :> We don't want to warn
>  Nigel> the user before they shoot themselves in the foot, but not
>  Nigel> loudly enough that they can't help notice and choose to do
>  Nigel> something before the damage is done?
> 
> You're forgetting that Pavel's idea of user interaction is via BUG_ON()
> and panic(). That's obviously "cleaner", "less ugly", and "smaller".

If you have a "can't happen" condition, it is just plain wrong to
return 0 and succeed. If you can't understand that, well, that's your
problem, not mine.

Now, if you want kernel that asks user "really mount ext3 on /dev/hda3
filesystem to /, WARNING: you should run fsck first, press f to do
that", that's your option, feel free to start your own kernel fork.

								Pavel 
-- 
People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers...
...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!
-
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/