On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:46:07PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > FWIW, I still completely disagree on that taint. You (Luis) obviously > have been running into a bug in that driver, I doubt the firmware > actually managed to wedge the hardware. This hasn't happened just once, its happed many times sporadically now, once a week or two weeks I'd say. And the system isn't being moved around. > But even if it did, that's still not really a kernel taint. The kernel > itself isn't in any way affected by this. Of course it is, a full reboot is required. > Yes, the system is in a weird state now. But that's *not* equivalent to > "kernel tainted". Requiring a full reboot is a dire situation to be in, and loosing connectivity to the point this is not recoverable likewise. You guys are making out a taint to be the end of the world. We have a taint even for a kernel warning, and as others have mentioned mac80211 already produces these. What exactly is the opposition to a taint to clarify that a device firmware has crashed and your system requires a full reboot? Luis
