Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:19:06 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sky2: detect and prevent kernel panic from a possible faulty hardware | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Samuel Williams <sam8641@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:35:54 -0500
> A possible faulty hardware might interrupt with a status of 0xffffffff which > may kernel panic if sky2 driver tries to handle it. Detecting this problem > may avoid kernel panic. > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Williams <sam8641@gmail.com>
Sure, but then the device is basically just going to stop.
I think this change needs to be more comprehensive, for example it needs to fully reset the device and try to get it operational again.
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