On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 21:28 +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:> module_firmware_crashed You didn't CC me or the wireless list on the rest of the patches, so I'm replying to a random one, but ... What is the point here? This should in no way affect the integrity of the system/kernel, for most devices anyway. So what if ath10k's firmware crashes? If there's a driver bug it will not handle it right (and probably crash, WARN_ON, or something else), but if the driver is working right then that will not affect the kernel at all. So maybe I can understand that maybe you want an easy way to discover - per device - that the firmware crashed, but that still doesn't warrant a complete kernel taint. Instead of the kernel taint, IMHO you should provide an annotation in sysfs (or somewhere else) for the *struct device* that had its firmware crash. Or maybe, if it's too complex to walk the entire hierarchy checking for that, have a uevent, or add the ability for the kernel to print out elsewhere in debugfs the list of devices that crashed at some point... All of that is fine, but a kernel taint? johannes
