On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. >> > 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? >
It's from Realtek's website, from what I can surmise from the bug report in Ubuntu's Launchpad. -- Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price http://strredwolf.furrynet.com _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
