[geeks] Apple applications phoning home

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, der Mouse wrote:

>>> That should not be able to crash the kernel [...]
>> Kernel modules interact with the Kernel, if a Kernel module goes
>> wrong it usually brings the Kernel down too.
>
> Oh, if you're talking about third-party provided kernel modules, then
> yeah, it's understandable.  I thought you were talking about
> third-party devices interacting with OS-provided drivers.

As far as I know, he is talking about the Apple-supplied mass-storage
IOKit drivers.  They're needlessly fragile in the area of hot-plugging,
but they have been getting steadily better.

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