On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:52 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > I have a different interpretation of the original issue, since afaik the > > value it was doing a BUG_ON on is a value that is only passed in by the > > driver and copied by the ucode to the response, hence it shouldn't > > actually crash unless the driver is passing bogus stuff in or, as it > > seems to be the case here, the DMA programming is completely fucked and > > the ucode just goes to write to random memory locations. > > Seems like a good enough argument to call for it to be opened up. But there's a chance that the DMA programming being fucked up will make it scribble over your filesystem buffers. So it's surely safer to BUG_ON. johannes
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