[RFC/RFT] ssb: Avoid system hang when SPROM read fails
John W. Linville
linville at tuxdriver.com
Mon Apr 26 14:32:33 EDT 2010
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:04:33PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 04/26/2010 12:15 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >
> > Well, the "good" news is that I hit the "Unable to read SPROM" case.
> > The bad news is that the box still hangs after the -ENODEV. I have
> > not yet tracked-down the exact location of the current hang.
> >
> > John
> >
> > P.S. Sorry about the 'radio silence' -- I've been distracted with
> > some other things. Also, the box in question originally belonged
> > to someone else who had configured it in a way that was less than
> > friendly to kernel development. I finally reinstalled it...
>
> That box is certainly resistant!
>
> I certainly understand your distractions. That has to be a major
> understatement.
>
> As the patch makes some improvement in both your system and the one in
> Bug #15825, I'll push it as a real patch.
>
> Would your box be available to me as a loaner? I have considered buying
> a netbook for debugging purposes, but I cannot quite justify the cost.
> In addition, Murphy's law would make whatever one I bought work without
> any problems.
I think that can be arranged...
John
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