If that's what Linus is saying, then he needs to work on his communication skills, because that is not what he said. What he actually said is that dynamic errors should not be detected, they should be ignored. That's so antiquated and ignorant that I hope that he meant what you said, but it's definitely not what he wrote.
As I posted up in this thread, the right way to handle this is to make dynamic errors either throw exceptions or kill the whole task, and split the critical work into tasks that can be as-a-whole failed or completed, almost like transactions. The idea that the kernel should just go on limping in a f'd up state is bonkers.
As I posted up in this thread, the right way to handle this is to make dynamic errors either throw exceptions or kill the whole task, and split the critical work into tasks that can be as-a-whole failed or completed, almost like transactions. The idea that the kernel should just go on limping in a f'd up state is bonkers.