Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> writes: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> So for me it's the "expose these states" that I get worried about.. A >> random driver should not necessarily even be able to *see* this, and >> decide to be clever and take advantage of the ordering. >> >> So I'd hope there would be some visibility restrictions. We currently >> have drivers already being confused by DOWN_PREPARE vs DOWN_FAILED etc >> etc random state transitions, and giving them even more flexibility to >> pick random states sounds like a really bad idea. I'd like to make >> sure that drivers and filesystems etc do not even *see* the states >> that are meant for the scheduler or workqueues, for example).
Yeah, I assume Episode II is where we collapse each into sane states as Thomas clarified. That can be reviewed: I'd hate to try to do it in one go. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
