Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 02:21:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, imp@village.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Racing interrupts Message-ID: <199910260221.TAA26021@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199910260105.TAA16714@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 25, 99 07:05:03 pm
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> > I disagree. Windows will actually pop up a dialog to complain
> > about a card being ejected while it is active ("started").
>
> Sometimes it will. I Win95 it 'mostly works', and on '98 it sometimes
> works. Sometimes it hangs the box, sometimes it whines.
>
> > The system will not crash as a result of this.
>
> Not true, it will hang the system. I can show this if more proof is
> needed on my laptop. There is no software solution that will avoid all
> problems.
>
> [
> Deleted rest of article since it is based on assumptions that I don't
> ascribe to...
> ]
I think that a driver that crashes the system as a result of
the hardware being ejected is arguably a broken driver, from
the standpoint of complying with the Windows removable device
driver writers guide.
I don't think that you can point at a particular failing instance,
and then generalize from that about how it's supposed to work (as
opposed to how it does work).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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