Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > >From my reading of the above thread, putting the proposed workaround into
> > > serial core will indeed allow people's machines to keep running while
> > > reminding us about the driver bugs.
> >
> > I would much rather the buggy drivers were actually fixed - is there a
> > reason why the drivers can't actually be fixed (other than lazyness)?
> >
> > Once they're fixed, adding a BUG_ON then becomes practical IMHO - it'll
> > stop new driver writers being confused.
>
> Okay, but lets add BUG_ONs that actually work. BUG_ON in second hunk
> could never trigger, and last hunk did not help in specific case of
> bluetooth problem. This should be better: it warns at right places,
> but allows system to survive.
I like that approach, thanks.
> I'll now try to fix bluetooth problem.
Please keep Marcel Cc'ed.
> + return -EL3HLT;
ooh, I always wanted to use that ;)
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