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SubjectRe: Mark IPW2100 as BROKEN: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:05:18AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov (gorcunov@gmail.com) wrote:
> Since it's that serious maybe we should change
>
> IPW_DEBUG_INFO("%s: Fatal error value: 0x%08X\n",
> priv->net_dev->name, priv->fatal_error);
>
> to printk(KERN_WARN)? And here is why - as I see now we can't say what
> exactly is wrong - Evgeniy said he has a suspicious about firmware so
> this WARNS will be collected by Arjan thru kerneloops and we could not
> ask users to change debug level and repost problem - oops will have it
> by default - and if it really firmware problem - firmware engineers could
> find this _additional_ info usefull and resolve it (probably).

The only reason for this change is to make a mark at the kerneloops.
I.e. users know, there is a bug. Developers know, there is a bug.
Everyone knows that there is a bug, but until it is at the special place
we look to each other just like there is no bug.

Here are dumps for example:
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245

Bug existed even with 1.2 firmware and .11 kernel.
Intel, that's a great marketing slogan: stability everywhere!

--
Evgeniy Polyakov


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