Hello All, I am not on the list, so please reply to me with the list with your comments. I was going through some code in serial.c and noticed that there are page allocations/deallocations in rs_open and startup (serial.c). These allocations could fail. This affects reliablity in some minor way Consider a system running out of memory and the administrator decided to grab the serial console (say from home) to see what was wrong.. His open would fail since we are running out of memory and he would not be able to use the remote serial console. I was wondering if it is a good idea to make some such allocations at boot time. This would mean that these allocations would never fail. I agree that the chances of such a scenario occuring is not very high, but it adds to the reliability of the OS. What do you think ? Ba Sin So. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices! http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - 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/