linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] isight_firmware: Avoid crash on loading invalid firmware

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:20:00 +0000
From:	"Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	"Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isight_firmware: Avoid crash on loading invalid firmware

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 09:14:27PM +0000, Justin Mattock wrote:
>> Also not matlock(not the T.V. show). Now onto the status:  I think
>> there might be something going on with this patch, or the module
>> itself I keep getting ACPI EC: GPE storm
>> detected(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724) , yesterday
>> I modified drivers/acpi/ec.c and was not receiving this message the
>> rest of the day, after applying the patch to isight_firmware and
>> loading, I'm receiving this message probably within 20 minutes of
>> being up. Now I'm not sure If it's because I modified ec.c, or not
>> that's causing this. I'll have to run a couple of experiments to see.
>> has anybody seen the same message?
>> regards;
>
> Yeah, I've seen that too. Pretty sure it's unrelated.
>
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
>

Alright,
and again thanks for the help,
 I'll keep you posted if I see anything.
regards;

-- 
Justin P. Mattock
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