On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:12:14PM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:32:20AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > > And for embedded systems with which applications is it 100% safe to > > > disable this option? > > > > Sony's digital cameras. > > We have also several very small automation & measurement devices in the > field which run a very dedicated more or less single application which > can be carefully audited. > > In the OSADL safety working group, people are discussing about Linux for > safety critical applications. If we want to achieve such scenarios, > stripped-down systems are an absolute must. >... My first reaction is that as soon as you enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED you can easily enter codepaths noone else has used for a while and that got unnoticed broken. > rsc cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html