Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932711AbWLNNK4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:10:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932712AbWLNNK4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:10:56 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:57260 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932711AbWLNNKz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:10:55 -0500 Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Alan , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen?= Koch , Hua Zhong , "'Martin J. Bligh'" , "'Linus Torvalds'" , "'Greg KH'" , "'Jonathan Corbet'" , "'Andrew Morton'" , "'Michael K. Edwards'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <4580E37F.8000305@mbligh.org> <003801c71f45$45d722c0$6721100a@nuitysystems.com> <20061214111439.11bed930@localhost.localdomain> <200612141231.17331.hjk@linutronix.de> <20061214124241.44347df6@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:10:30 +0100 Message-Id: <1166101830.27217.1037.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 835 Lines: 22 On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:55 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 14 2006 12:42, Alan wrote: > >On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0100 > >Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > >> You think it's easier for a manufacturer of industrial IO cards to > >> debug a (large) kernel module? > > > >You think its any easier to debug because the code now runs in ring 3 but > >accessing I/O space. > > A NULL fault won't oops the system, .. except when the userspace driver crashes as a result and then the hw still crashes the hw (for example via an irq storm or by tying the PCI bus or .. ) - 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/