Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/15] net: taint when the device driver firmware crashes | From | Shannon Nelson <> | Date | Sat, 9 May 2020 18:01:51 -0700 |
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On 5/8/20 9:35 PM, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > Device driver firmware can crash, and sometimes, this can leave your > system in a state which makes the device or subsystem completely > useless. Detecting this by inspecting /proc/sys/kernel/tainted instead > of scraping some magical words from the kernel log, which is driver > specific, is much easier. So instead this series provides a helper which > lets drivers annotate this and shows how to use this on networking > drivers. > If the driver is able to detect that the device firmware has come back alive, through user intervention or whatever, should there be a way to "untaint" the kernel? Or would you expect it to remain tainted?
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