Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759726AbXELWOz (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 18:14:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751998AbXELWOs (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 18:14:48 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:58455 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751892AbXELWOs (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 18:14:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 00:14:46 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Gautham R Shenoy , Oleg Nesterov , Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: [RFD] Freezing of kernel threads Message-ID: <20070512221446.GA761@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200705122017.32792.rjw@sisk.pl> <20070512191709.GA428@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 29 Hi! > > If you fail to do that, we'll see freezer failure, quickly, and catch > > the simple bug. > > "It's a feature to add crap to drivers and subsystems that don't care!" > > That's a novel thing. > > Maybe we could add other features too. Like a "IM_NOT_AN_IDIOT" flag that > every driver has to set in it's "struct device", so that the device > manager knows that it wasn't written by an idiot. Well, it was initially SOMEONE_REVIEWIED_THIS flag (and thus pretty neccessary for initial merge). Now it still serves as SOMEONE_REVIEWIED_THIS flag, but I guess you could call it IM_NOT_AN_IDIOT flag, too. Well, we can go the other way around, but that means more careful reviewing of incoming code. Yes, we can do it. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/