On Tue, 17 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > IOW, testing is good, but it's _not_ good if you test your users to > destruction. User testing should be limited (as far as humanly possible) > to things that they can sanely report. Oh, absolutely. I do agree -- I've just wanted to point out the advantages and drawbacks of the watchdog in case someone (not necessarily you) misses them. ;-) Maciej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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