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SubjectRe: applesmc oops in 3.10/3.11
On 10/02/2013 02:53 AM, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
>>> Patch added on top of 3.12.0-0.rc3.git0.1.fc20.x86_64 and built. But after ~dozen reboots, I'm not triggering the problem. The only items in dmesg with smc in it:
>>>
>>> [ 13.799819] applesmc: key=261 fan=2 temp=14 index=14 acc=1 lux=2 kbd=1
>>> [ 13.833402] input: applesmc as /devices/platform/applesmc.768/input/input10
>>>
>>
>> One thing I have seen in all logs is the earlier "send_byte fail" message, so
>> I think that is a pre-requisite.
>
> Not necessarily - it could be that the patch actually fixes the root
> cause. One possible scenario is that on recent SMCs, some of the
> commands produce more data than we actually read. This would
> eventually lead to both data corruption and overflow somwhere in the
> SMC internals. If the original SMC error is interpreted as a read
> buffer overflow, then that problem should be fixed with this patch.
>

Good point.

But shouldn't we at least get the "flushed %d bytes" warning message in this case ?

Thanks,
Guenter



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