Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?

[Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:27:00AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> A Sexta, 23 de Abril de 2010 20:13:42 Dan Carpenter escreveu:
> > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:06:13AM +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> -snip
> > > 
> > > Is it possible a faulty ath5k module to affect diverse parts of kernel
> > > causing different oopses to happen referencing things as different as
> > > cdrom_ioctl, find_vma, i915_gem_object_get_pages,
> > > get_vfs_caps_from_disk,
> > > warn_slowpath_common (ath5k_tasklet_rx), proc_lookup_de and
> > > _spin_lock(ext4_getattr) [soft lookup]?
> > 
> -snip
> > 
> > If you know a working version of the kernel try a git bisect otherwise
> > just post your dmesg with the crash etc.
> > 
> 
> I don't. I doubt the dmesg will be of significance, as I said they're never the 
> same.
> However I've posted the dmesgs here [ 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1457568 ] prior to asking for help in 
> LKML. Kernel version is Ubuntu's 2.6.32, not Vanilla.
> 
> I believe nothing significant can be extracted from them. Am I correct?
> 

Well they have the 'M' taint for "Machine Check Exception" so that
probably means the hardware is failing.

regards,
dan carpenter

> -- 
> Pedro