netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 10/15] soc: qcom: ipa: use new module_firmware

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Message-ID: <20200522215350.GD11244@42.do-not-panic.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 May 2020 21:53:50 +0000
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Alex Elder <elder@...e.org>
Cc:     jeyu@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, arnd@...db.de,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...hat.com, aquini@...hat.com,
        cai@....pw, dyoung@...hat.com, bhe@...hat.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de, gpiccoli@...onical.com,
        pmladek@...e.com, tiwai@...e.de, schlad@...e.de,
        andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, keescook@...omium.org,
        daniel.vetter@...ll.ch, will@...nel.org,
        mchehab+samsung@...nel.org, kvalo@...eaurora.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/15] soc: qcom: ipa: use new
 module_firmware_crashed()

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:52:44PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> On 5/22/20 12:28 AM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > OK thanks. Can the user be affected by this crash? If so how? Can
> > we recover ? Is that always guaranteed?
> 
> We can't guarantee anything about recovering from a crash of
> an independent entity.  But by design, recovery from a modem
> crash is possible and is supposed to leave Linux in a
> consistent state.  A modem crash is likely to be observable
> to the user.

Thanks this helps, I'll drop this patch!

 Luis