twe driver and 3dm

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:38:00PM +0400, Artem Koutchine wrote:
> Well, during discussion in other thread we have figured that
> twe driver is actually pretty harmless and does not cause kernel
> panic.And I also figured that accessing extended error log of 3dm
> via web interface  causes kernel to panic when the link is clicked
> very fast several times. 
> 
> Here is what i think. 3DM is only an application and IMHO
> error in an application must not cause kernel panic but such
> applications must be terminated w/o futher consiquences to
> the OS running.So, the problem with kernel panic
> when using extended error log in 3dm , again IMHO,
> is cause by either buggy kernel or buggy driver. I mean, 3dm
> passes some data to the driver which makes do bad things or
> 3dm passes some data to the kernel syscall which make kernel
> panic. Either way, *IMHO*, the part that must be fixed first is
> not 3dm, because it is just an external process relative to the kernel.
> 
> What do you think?

I think you need to stop self-diagnosing problems and concentrate on
accurately reporting the symptoms.

  http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#symptoms

Kris
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