On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:19:06 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Samuel Williams <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > > 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. Not only that it is going to assert IRQ until the device is hard reset. Plus it is not clear that cleaning up after sick hardware is possible at all. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
