On Wed, 19 May 2010 09:59:34 +0300 Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >The corollary is that real world systems have to operate in the face of > >misbehaving hardware *and* software. > > I still think the kernel shouldn't deal with broken applications and we > shouldn't try to fix them in kernel space. We can, of course, try to > find them and have all sorts of bells and whistles shouting 'process > %s is preventing CPU from sleeping for %llu nanoseconds' or something > like that. > But with that, you still shift the burden of exchanging that app with an feature-equivalent non-broken version to the user. which is not user friendly and not necessary if you have a "smart" enough kernel. Cheers, Flo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
