Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752748AbXE2Lx7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 07:53:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751230AbXE2Lxv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 07:53:51 -0400 Received: from mtagate5.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.138]:26334 "EHLO mtagate5.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750991AbXE2Lxu (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 07:53:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:53:24 +0200 From: Heiko Carstens To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , Joel Schopp , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a trivial patch style checker Message-ID: <20070529115324.GB18437@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> References: <9a1288909c10f2935af82ec5cea0c46b@pinky> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 551 Lines: 12 On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:23:45AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Possible further checks that might make sense: > - panic() anywhere in drivers/* A driver should be allowed to panic. E.g. if it detects that due to a firmware or driver bug memory corruption happened. IMHO the best thing to do then is panic. - 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/