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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:04:33 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] ssb: Avoid system hang when SPROM read fails
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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.

Larry