Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 00:32:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: devices going offline Message-ID: <199504052232.AAA07605@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504052140.OAA24013@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Apr 5, 95 02:40:53 pm
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As Don Yuniskis wrote: > > When an external device has the capability of being manually > taken offline during an operation, should the driver automatically > resume when the device returns online? Or, abort the operation > in progress (signalling an error)? Or, prompt (how?) for user > intervention?? It simply can't do the latter. (A device driver does not have an interactive terminal, and it does not need to have an attached process while operating in the ``bottom half'' of the kernel.) I'd say: EIO. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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