On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:55 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 14 2006 12:42, Alan wrote: > >On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0100 > >Hans-Jürgen Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You think it's easier for a manufacturer of industrial IO cards to > >> debug a (large) kernel module? > > > >You think its any easier to debug because the code now runs in ring 3 but > >accessing I/O space. > > A NULL fault won't oops the system, .. except when the userspace driver crashes as a result and then the hw still crashes the hw (for example via an irq storm or by tying the PCI bus or .. ) - 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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