From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from jordan.toaster.net ([69.36.241.228]:3197 "EHLO jordan.toaster.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755445Ab0AEUIL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:08:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4B439BA6.3010609@toaster.net> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:05:58 -0800 From: Sean MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern CC: Andrew Morton , bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, USB list , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14564] New: capture-example sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/x86/mm/fault.c References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Sean wrote: > > >> Alan Stern wrote: >> >>> Um, when you say it does the job, what do you mean? >>> >> It traps the error and prevents the kernel from crashing. >> > > As did some of the earlier patches, right? > > Yes, but this one is good because it works without a debug kernel. > Still, at this point I'm not sure it's worthwhile to pursue this any > farther. I'm convinced it's a hardware problem. Do you want to > continue, or are you happy to switch computers and forget about it? > Thanks so much for your help Alan. I also think this is definitely a bug in the hardware. Let's leave it at that, I'm happy. Sean