On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:10 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... >> >> TBH, I still wouldn't implement it the way LSI maintainers did. >> I'm happy they are the maintainers and it's their call. > > They are doing things which effect the entire system, not just > their driver. So this doesn't fall under "maintainer's rights" Agreed. This case is about a debug option which is normally disabled. So most people will never see this. The thread was more about how to make the failure visible in a sane way WITHOUT the debug flag enabled. Then when the debug flag is enabled, panic the machine as well. > If they fail locally, that's fine and perfectly expected, but to take > the whole machine out is another matter altogether. Agreed. thanks, grant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
