linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] bus: mvebu-mbus: Avoid setting an undefined window size

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Message-ID: <20140409091234.20f2e547@skate>
Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2014 09:12:34 +0200
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Neil Greatorex <neil@...boyfat.co.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Matthew Minter <matthew_minter@...atex.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bus: mvebu-mbus: Avoid setting an undefined window
 size

Dear Willy Tarreau,

On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 08:11:29 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> The WARN is correctly emitted for both igb ports here, but unfortunately
> despite EINVAL, I still get the panic. Also I find it surprizing that it
> reports sizes ending in ffff. I read the patch and it looks correct, so
> we possibly have something else wrong here.

Yes, the panic is expected: Jason's patch is not *fixing* anything,
it's just telling you *why* it's going to panic.

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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