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

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:50:20 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Justin Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com>
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 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.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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