linux-kernel - Re: Crash on boot after abrupt shutdown

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Date:	Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:03:55 +1200
From:	"Keith Chew" <keith.chew@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Crash on boot after abrupt shutdown

Hi Alan

> Very unlikely but you don't provide enough information to even guess.
>
> I've seen similar behaviours before and they usually indicate a bug in
> the driver that crashed. Eg the setup code for a network card not being
> able to cope if the network card is in a particular state but does
> enough that next boot it works.
>
> You need to work back from your wireless driver panic to the root cause
> of that panic and then back from there.
>

Thank you very much for your diagnostic. The stack traces are not as
consistent as our driver crashes, so we have not posted them yet
before digging a bit deeper. We are now looking at the
startup/shutdown process of the driver, and there could be some
critical timing issues, but we will check and test.

Thanks again, will report back soon.

Regards
Keith
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