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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/15] net: taint when the device driver firmware crashes
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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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