Re: 2.1.118 Tons of oopes

David Schleef (ds@stm.lbl.gov)
Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:26:18 -0700 (PDT)


>
> The point is it's not just PCMCIA that has to be changed. Think of all
> the in-house drivers people have developed. These have to be changed
> too. And as I've just responded to DaveM, I don't see that there *is*
> any benefit to the way this was done.
>

<sarcasm>

Why not put flush at the beginning of the structure, so that drivers
just *won't work*, instead of leaking memory or oopsing when the
file is closed? Sometimes it's better to create a BIG bug instead
of one that might go unnoticed for a while...

</sarcasm>

dave...

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