linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] fix for bugzilla #7544 (keyspan USB-to-serial converter)

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Message-ID: <87irfodwk0.fsf@semtex.sncag.com>
Date:	Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:17:19 +0100
From:	Rainer Weikusat <rainer.weikusat@...ag.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@...ag.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] fix for bugzilla #7544 (keyspan USB-to-serial converter)

Rainer Weikusat <rw@...tex.sncag.com> writes:

[...]

>> And, we don't want to panic() for such a trivial thing.  Just abort the
>> probe sequence at most, but never shut down the machine for an odd
>> device that we find.
>
> I actually thought about that this morning: Considering the path this
> came from, this is not 'an odd device' but rather something like 'kernel
> memory corruption' (the 'endpoint' value originally came from the
> exact same descriptor).

This turned out to be wrong: The values are hard-coded in keyspan.h.


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