Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 05:08 schrieb Greg KH:
> > 4. Is the payoff too small? Maybe it would be best to do
> > nothing at all.
>
> No, I'd like to have something as it's just too annoying when one device
> or driver hangs and takes the whole rest of the usb scanning down with
> it. Any way to make this more robust is a good idea.
This is not a good idea. If enumerating a device fails, the user
is likely to replug. And you start another kernel thread, or, worse,
if it is a livelock, here goes your second CPU. A kernel bug is serious,
localising it is best. Introducing a task and memory leak is bad.
Regards
Oliver
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