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. -- 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/
