Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932130AbVLHON0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:13:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932125AbVLHON0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:13:26 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:15634 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932130AbVLHONZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:13:25 -0500 To: Rob Landley Cc: zine el abidine Hamid , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:117! References: <20051205150530.91163.qmail@web30607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200512052306.18420.rob@landley.net> From: Nix X-Emacs: don't cry -- it won't help. Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:13:03 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200512052306.18420.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "6 Dec 2005 05:11:12 -0000") Message-ID: <87d5k7vfrk.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 924 Lines: 24 On 6 Dec 2005, Rob Landley whispered secretively: > On Monday 05 December 2005 09:05, zine el abidine Hamid wrote: > >> PS : The user's manual definition of The Watch-Dog >> Timer is : "a device to ensure thet standalone systems >> can always recover from abnormal conditions that cause >> the system to crash. These conditions may result from >> an external EMI or software bug." > > Such as the power supply filling up with dust and catching fire. > > Rather an optimistic user's manual, really... The Algol-68 people considered this problem long ago: . -- `Don't confuse the shark with the remoras.' --- Rob Landley - 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/