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From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:52:44PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> On 5/22/20 12:28 AM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > OK thanks. Can the user be affected by this crash? If so how? Can
> > we recover ? Is that always guaranteed?
> 
> We can't guarantee anything about recovering from a crash of
> an independent entity.  But by design, recovery from a modem
> crash is possible and is supposed to leave Linux in a
> consistent state.  A modem crash is likely to be observable
> to the user.

Thanks this helps, I'll drop this patch!

 Luis