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Re: Sym53C8xx Driver Hardening: msg#00119

Subject: Re: Sym53C8xx Driver Hardening
Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The high reliability people take a different view. I actually agree with
> them. It isnt about 'oops didnt happen' it is about controlling the
> failure case

"graceful degradation" -- it's been being taught in CS curricula for
*at least* twenty years.  I'm disturbed by all the places that people
have chosen, when faced with the unexpected, to just panic, rather
than find a way to get back to some semblence of a running system.

I don't want some goofy UPS hanging off a USB bus, for instance, to
take down a critical storage server.



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