Re: Mark IPW2100 as BROKEN: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Sun Sep 21 2008 - 18:08:26 EST


On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:43:07AM +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko (denys@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> You are not right. I had totaly disfunctional Intel driver on two laptops and
> reported about issue to Intel. Yes it took time, they took all debugs and
> went coma mode (i was thinking that), but suddently i got mail from them, and
> next kernel/firmware release worked for me flawlessly. So they did perfect
> job.

I'm talking about current situation.

> Don't be negative and prepare yourself for giving long debug outputs. Patience
> and only patience.

Just to be clear, did it take 4 years? :)

Anyway, I already made conclusions, as probably others: I will
experiment with different 'workarounds' for this bug, maybe I will
succeed, maybe Intel will decided to fix it, maybe LHC will crash the
world. Verbose warning about the bug was frowned upon, so its up to uses
to make a progress here...

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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