Host mode instability & device lockups

Andy Ross andy at plausible.org
Wed May 1 13:11:04 EDT 2013


On 05/01/2013 10:05 AM, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> That would lead to workaround, so no body will care about broken 
> firmware. Or some one will as why restart firwmare every hour. If it is 
> an firmware issue, we need to fix it.

Indeed, and distinguishing a firmware crash from other things like
truly latched-up logic seems important, no?  If there's no existing watchdog
facility, then clearly that idea won't work (though it makes me a little
sad).

>> > As it is, I'm at least hopeful I can get the driver fixed such that it
>> > doesn't hang the machine.
>
> Did just removed module or did rmmmod --force?

Fedora's kernels don't include CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD, so no.

Andy



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