Re: [PATCH] sky2: detect and prevent kernel panic from a possible faulty hardware

2013-07-31 Thread Oliver Neukum
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 16:19 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Samuel Williams > Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:35:54 -0500 > > > A possible faulty hardware might interrupt with a status of 0x which > > may kernel panic if sky2 driver tries to handle it. Detecting this problem > > may avoid ke

Re: [PATCH] sky2: detect and prevent kernel panic from a possible faulty hardware

2013-07-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:19:06 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Samuel Williams > Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:35:54 -0500 > > > A possible faulty hardware might interrupt with a status of 0x which > > may kernel panic if sky2 driver tries to handle it. Detecting this problem > > may

Re: [PATCH] sky2: detect and prevent kernel panic from a possible faulty hardware

2013-07-30 Thread David Miller
From: Samuel Williams Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:35:54 -0500 > A possible faulty hardware might interrupt with a status of 0x which > may kernel panic if sky2 driver tries to handle it. Detecting this problem > may avoid kernel panic. > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Williams Sure, but then th

[PATCH] sky2: detect and prevent kernel panic from a possible faulty hardware

2013-07-27 Thread Samuel Williams
A possible faulty hardware might interrupt with a status of 0x which may kernel panic if sky2 driver tries to handle it. Detecting this problem may avoid kernel panic. Signed-off-by: Samuel Williams --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 11 ++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions