On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:52:10PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On 06/14/2010 11:41 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > So if there's a routing problem, it turns into a polled interrupt? Do > > we really want that? > > Oh yeah, I really want that for libata. Routing is only part of the > problem and flaky IRQ is something we have to learn to cope with. > > > I wonder how long people will run without realizing that there are > > problems with their system if their devices still work. > > I think things would be better this way. If the drives (both cd and > hard) / input devices are not accessible, most people would simply > give up rather than reporting, and many cases are transient problems > which happen only once in the blue moon. > > It would be great if some kind of automatic reporting can be used > (similar to kerneloops?). Hmm... maybe make the warnings scarier? If you throw a WARN(), then kerneloops will pick it up, so you should be fine there. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
