On 7/1/2010 9:45 AM, Matt Price wrote: > Hi, > > I am affected by a bug that causes kernel panics when powertop runs: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/585938 > > The bug itself seems to be in the rtl8192se_pci kernel module, but it > might be helpful to know what powertop is asking the module to do. The > realtek developers do not seem to really know what's going on so if I > could point the min a particular direction it might be really helpful > Can anyone on the list suggest what sort of things to look for? I > should say also that I myself am not a programmer, and can barely read C > -- so if you could point me to specific places in the powertop codebase > that might also be really helpful, as I could forward that information > on to the realtek developers. > > Thanks veyr very much -- this issue is actually sort of killing me! all > the best, > Matt > > >
not one of the better bug reports it seems. well... you have a serious driver bug, with a buffer overflow. where in the linux kernel tree is this driver? _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
